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Plea Bargaining - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Prosecutors should adopt a universal model where they are the caretaker - the person more concerned with making sure the system is fair rather than getting a conviction
        
        This looks like holding judges, prosecutors, and defense lawyers all to the same standard and accountable for making sure they are being fair to the defendant
      - Focus on DA Races (Bellin)
        
        DA races are very low in popularity and don't really get a lot of attention. A progressive would mobilize voters to vote for them then an established incumbent
        
        Progressivism is on the rise in some jurisdictions as they acknowledge a rise in mass incarceration and a downward trend in all crime and put a dart on why mass incarceration shouldn't be happening if crime is low
- - - - Plea Negotiations usually don't happen through the court, they happen outside the courtroom usually between lawyers, prosecutors, and district attorney Pleas do not receive any oversight from the community, public, or media.
      - Trials serve as a way to check any form of misconduct from all parties involved such as judges checking the lawyer, judges checking any evidence and the greatest check of all the Jury (ABA)
  - - - If they are imprisoned while waiting their sentence they're more likely to plead guilty if that means the process is sped up
- - - - However, in most plea deal cases the evidence isn't throghouly check or processed as theirs no trial or a jury to review and think about the evidence
    - - The agreement is reviewed and accepted or denied by the judge, and they claim it is subjected to scruitny by the community, voters, yet the community can't have a voice as theirs no trial by jury held