Hunter v. United States · ¶53
Together with this Court's approval of aggressive negotiating tactics, developments like these have made it easier than ever for prosecutors to cajole defendants into pleading guilty. So much so that perhaps 95 percent of convictions now come by way of plea bargains. See R. Barkow, Justice Abandoned 74–75 (2025). These days, plea bargaining is not just “some adjunct to the criminal justice system; it is the criminal justice system.” R. Scott & W. Stuntz, Plea Bargaining as Contract, 101 Yale L. J. 1909, 1912 (1992).Read in context ›
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