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Refinement of Plea Bargain Agreement in California Supreme Court

Rabin Nabizadeh
April 18, 2013

Usually, plea bargaining is the purview of prosecutors in criminal cases, but recently the California Supreme Court has unanimously determined that judges may inform defendants of their possible sentence if they plead guilty to the charges against them.  This dangerous precedent has caused quite a stir in the state and has  completely re-defined the roles […]