Throughout my college career, all of my preconceived notions about the Criminal Justice System have been shattered. In the beginning, I was astonished to hear that only 10% of crimes are cleared in the United States. I would have liked to believe, and did believe before a course in the subject, that in the end, ...
Faced with rising violent juvenile crimes, the Colorado Legislature created the Youthful Offender System (YOS) during a special system, charged with acting as a middle tier between Youth Corrections and the Department of Corrections for violent juvenile felons, YOS started out as a rehabilitation program of sorts. Basically a cross between juvenile detention centers and ...
Plea bargaining is a process in which the defense and prosecutors consider and agree on a reduced or lesser charge that a defendant will plead guilty to instead of a more serious charge. This process is a collective effort by both the defense and prosecution in which both parties will benefit. Issues have risen questioning ...
“Plea bargaining is a process through which a defendant pleads guilty to a criminal charge with the expectation of receiving some consideration of the state” (Neubauer, 2008, Ch. 13, p.323, ¶ 1). Plea bargaining comes in many forms and controversy remains at the forefront due to the public misconception that plea bargaining lets the offender ...
Abstract Protection and the right to trial and to appeal when necessary. While they are both very different systems, they both impact the way that our judicial system is run. When comparing the due process and crime control models, it should be kept in mind that “proponents of both models embrace constitutional values.” (H.Packer, Criminal ...
Many people do not know or understand how the criminal justice system works until they or someone they know become involved in it. Most of this misunderstanding or ignorance about the criminal justice system is based on media portrayal, but one should know and understand how the criminal justice system works. Criminal process is different ...
The criminal justice system within the United States is the practice law enforcement from several levels, local, state and federal. The court system is where the law enforcement process meets to decide what penalties to pass onto the defendants. Part of this process begins before and sometimes during the trial in which the prosecution or ...
When looking at statistics from the United States Department of Justice (2000) there is not a significant difference in the conviction or plea bargaining rates with the assistance of a public defender or a private attorney. According to the 2000 statistics: a total of 37,188 defendants who retained public counsel plea bargained. This was a ...
Defendants and prosecutors both benefit from plea bargaining. Defendants will benefit mostly because he or she will receive a lesser sentence in prison or jail than he or she would receive if the case went to trial. The prosecutor will benefit as well because the defendant taking the plea bargain means that the prosecutor will ...