Caseload pressures alone cannot explain plea bargaining rates
Evidence
Also, if plea bargaining were a result of heavy caseloads, then courts with heavier caseloads would rely on plea bargaining more than would courts with lighter caseloads. That is not the case. Some low-volume courts rely heavily on plea bargaining. But some high-volume courts—those in Baltimore and Los Angeles, for example—conduct large numbers of trials.7” So caseload pressures alone cannot account for plea bargaining. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1768
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- XREF: connects to: Plea bargaining dominated American courts by the early 1900s, not recently — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1767