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- Title
Cops and Pleas: Police Officers' Influence on Plea Bargaining.
- Authors
ABEL, JONATHAN
- Abstract
Police officers play an important, though little-understood, role in plea bargaining. This Essay examines the many ways in which prosecutors and police officers consult, collaborate, and clash with each other over plea bargaining. Using original interviews with criminal justice officials from around the country, this Essay explores the mechanisms of police involvement in plea negotiations and the implications of this involvement for both plea bargaining and policing. Ultimately, police influence in the arena of plea bargaining--long thought the exclusive domain of prosecutors--calls into question basic assumptions about who controls the prosecution team.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PLEA bargaining; POLICE; PROSECUTORS; CRIMINAL justice system; LAW enforcement; PROSECUTION; LAW
- Publication
Yale Law Journal, 2017, Vol 126, Issue 6, p1730
- ISSN
0044-0094
- Publication type
Article