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11 - Negotiated Case Dispositions in Germany, England and the United States

from Part III - Criminal Justice and Procedure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2019

By
Jenia I. Turner  and
Thomas Weigend
Edited by
Kai Ambos ,
Antony Duff ,
Julian Roberts ,
Thomas Weigend  and
Alexander Heinze
Kai Ambos
Affiliation:
Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
Antony Duff
Affiliation:
University of Stirling
Julian Roberts
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Thomas Weigend
Affiliation:
University of Cologne (Emeritus)
Alexander Heinze
Affiliation:
Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
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Summary

In the United States, the Supreme Court recently acknowledged that ‘criminal justice today is for the most part a system of pleas, not a system of trials’. More than 95 per cent of convictions in the federal and state systems are the product of negotiated guilty pleas. In England and Wales, that number is about 90 per cent.

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Core Concepts in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice , pp. 389 - 427
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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