By Tim Lynch
The Supreme Court issued two rulings today related to plea bargaining. What if a defense attorney fails to pass along a prosecutor’s offer to his client? And what if a defense attorney gives a client really bad advice so an offer is rejected and, after a trial, the client gets a lengthy prison sentence? The [...]
Plea Bargaining in the Supreme Court is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Tim Lynch
Yesterday, Law Professor Michelle Alexander wrote an op-ed for the New York Times with the title, “Go to Trial: Crash the Justice System.” Here’s an excerpt: AFTER years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless. But some questions a woman I know posed during a phone conversation one recent evening gave me [...]
Go to Trial and Crash the System? is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
By Tim Lynch
This month’s Wisconsin Lawyer has an article entitled “Nullification: A Jury’s ‘Secret’ Power,” by Erik R. Guenther. Here is an excerpt: When “[t]he purpose of a jury is to guard against the exercise of arbitrary power – to make available the commonsense judgment of the community as a hedge against the overzealous or mistaken prosecutor and [...]
A Jury’s ‘Secret’ Power is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
