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Law Review Article Reports Metadata on Victims of Coercive Plea Bargaining
Loaded on Sept. 1, 2024
by Matthew Clarke
published in Criminal Legal News
September, 2024, page 16
Filed under:
Databases,
Coercive Interrogations,
Plea Bargaining.
Location:
United States of America.
by Matt Clarke
An article published in the American University Law Review examines victims of coercive plea bargaining using extensive data from psychological studies and surveys. In doing so, it goes beyond the obvious victims—innocent defendants who are coerced into pleading guilty to a crime they did not commit—to include ...
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