Plea Bargaining and Juries

Question 1

Stats!

Answer 1

1% of americans over 18 yo are in jail or prison

95% of them got there through pleas bargaining

(Diamond and Rose)

Question 2

Why is plea bargaining important to note?

Answer 2

It contributes to the phenomenon of mass incarceration

Ppl are giving up 6th am rights for what?

Innocents are forced to fess up - crisis of false confessions!

Question 3

is plea bargaining an administrative necessity (SO MANY CASES - ALL CANT GO TO TRIAL!) or violent and coercive process?

Answer 3

BOTH! probs

Question 4

venire

voir dire

Answer 4

JURY LIST. the group of jurors the counsel gets to choose from, made up of lists from voters reg etc

“to say the truth” formal process of juror evaluation and selection. “for cause” and peremptory challenges

Question 5

What cases say we cant have all white or exclude women from VENIRE!?

Answer 5

Strauder v W Virginia

Taylor V Luoisiana

Question 6

Hung jury?

Answer 6

unable to reach verdit

Question 7

Jury nullification

Answer 7

even tho the jury feels that defendent is guilty, they acquit for moral or political reasons

Question 8

are juries any good

Answer 8

they take their role seriously and act reasonably but factors from voir dire processes to jury instructions and procedural limitations can weaken their position