Here’s a not-so-modest proposal that will reduce the prison population, improve the performance of the criminal justice system, and yield greater confidence in the administration of what we call, with no apparent sense of irony, “justice.” Ready? Eliminate plea bargaining.
If you’re still reading I could almost here the “pshaw” of jurists such as New Haven’s Patrick Clifford, who, of course, doesn’t read this column, but yet becomes aware of its contents by a form of judicial osmosis here’s why plea bargaining is really a form of social cancer.
