Plea bargaining. Can’t live with it; can’t live without it.

Half a century after approving coercive plea bargaining, the Supreme Court is beginning to recognize its costs.

When Carolyn Jean Hamm was found hanged in her basement in Arlington, Va., police suspected a “strange” young man seen in the area named David Vasquez. Prosecutors, aware of significant weaknesses in ...

The rise of the plea bargain. While jury trials might have afforded citizens the chance to witness—and even contest—the criminalization of the working class, plea bargains have allowed this ...

The Supreme Court issued an important criminal justice ruling on Thursday about the appropriate bounds of plea bargains. In an 8–1 opinion written by Justice Elena Kagan, the court held that some plea ...