first person
39 Years
I rejected a plea deal and chose instead to go to trial. I would not understand until too late that I had placed a target on my back.
plea bargaining
5 posts in ‘plea bargaining’
interventions
Becoming Decarceral Jurors
Serving in the jury system, and preserving it, should be a goal for anyone committed to ending the scope and scale of mass incarceration.
interventions
No Justice, No Pleas
Imagining the decarceral possibilities of plea strikes and defendant unions.
interventions
Mass Disenfranchisement
The scourge of plea bargaining is robbing millions of a different, and just as fundamental, kind of liberty.
book review
Trials Without Justice
Plea bargaining may be a bad deal overall. But for many Black and Brown defendants, is the alternative any better?