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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. Typically this is the maximum Charge or punishment that the defendant will be held to if he or she goes to trial.
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