US influence transplanted plea bargaining into Brazil’s civil-law system

Evidence

It wasn’t much noticed in the flurry of changes, but Lei 12.850/2013 would modify the rules for investigating “criminal organizations.” Most importantly, it made possible the widespread use of delações premiadas, or plea bargain deals, as long as the targets were defined correctly. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 440 (#builds-on, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Emergency anti-protest legislation quietly enabled plea-bargain prosecutions — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 440; Prosecutors, not judges, dominate U.S. criminal outcomes via plea bargaining

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Broader Connections

• Prosecutors, not judges, dominate U.S. criminal outcomes via plea bargaining #complicates (0.80)