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‘Fictional Pleas’ and ‘Hidden Departures’: Failure to Collect Data on Binding Federal Plea Bargains Hinders Researchers

by David M. Reutter

Are federal courts participating in a legal fiction during sentencing proceedings to maintain a peculiar but potentially necessary mechanism to resolve criminal cases without a jury? That question and the effects thereof are the subject of Plea Agreements and Suspending Disbelief (“Essay”). In his Essay, Sam ...

 

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