Berthoff v. U.S., No. Civ. No. 97-10883-WGY (D.Mass.) (140 F.Supp.2d 50) (April 9, 2001) (Judge William G. Young)
QUOTE OF THE WEEK - Some of the evils of “fact bargaining.”
“Plea bargaining gets away from the facts. First, as is widely recognized, justice is not done when premeditated murder, for example, is reduced to a lesser charge. But, more fundamentally and perhaps less obvious, plea bargains corrupt the ...
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