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Plea and Charge Bargaining
Plea and Charge Bargaining Research Summary Prepared by: Lindsey Devers, CSR, Incorporated 2107 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1000 Arlington, VA 20001 Under Contract No. GS-10F-0114L, Order No. 2008-F_08151 Janaury 24, 2011 Contents Introduction .. 1 Background .. 1 Prosecutorial Discretion .. 1 Legal Characteristics .. 2 Extralegal Characteristics .. 2 Summary Findings .. 3 Policy Implications and Future Research .. 3 References .. 4 i Research Summary: Plea and Charge BargainingINTRODUCTION Plea Bargaining is a defining, if not the defining, feature of the federal criminal justice system (Brown and Bunnell, 2006:1063). In plea Bargaining , a defendant is faced with a Charge at arraignment.
(2005), in 2003 there were 75,573 cases disposed of in federal district court by trial or plea. Of these, about 95 percent were disposed of by a guilty plea (Pastore and Maguire, 2003). While there are no exact estimates of the proportion of cases that are resolved through plea bargaining, scholars estimate that about 90 to 95 percent of both
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