Plea bargains ensure that the person is convicted of the crime, even if that means a lighter sentence. In a trail it does not matter how strong the evidence is against a person there is still a chance that the person may get away with the crime. ... Simpson had murdered his wife and friend but he was found innocent by the jury. ... They were given the option to take an Alford plea and plead guilty while maintaining that they are innocent of the crime committed. (Moriarty, 2012) By pressuring innocent parties into taking a plea bargain it allows the true criminal to walk free. ...

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One aspect of this is the disparate treatment of persons of color which occurs across the entire American criminal justice system. ... The American Bar Association, reviewed the US public defender system in 2004 and concluded "All too often, defendants plead guilty, even if they are innocent, without really understanding their legal rights or what is occurring...The fundamental right to a lawyer that America assumes applies to everyone accused of criminal conduct effectively does not exist in practice for countless people across the US." ... Most plea bargains consist of promise of a longer ...

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One side says there's a potential of executing an innocent man. ... An example of this is where Justice Brennan states: The death penalty is uncivilized, inhuman, inconsistent with human dignity and with the sanctity of life, that it treats members of the human race as nonhumans, as objects to be toyed with and discarded, that it is uniquely degrading to human dignity and by its very nature, a denial of the executed person's humanity. ... They will give emotional speeches about the one innocent man or woman who mi...

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With plea bargaining a prosecutor could devote their time to cases that they had strong evidence that they believed, the suspect is innocent. ... When a person accepts a plea bargain, that person is not denying that he/she committed that crime, but this person is willing to accept a lesser charge or lesser time to serve. ... When this happens, then there is a lot of time and money wasted on the whole process of trying to convict a person. ... Once a person is sentence to prison, then they are known as an offender. ... When a person plea bargains, it is quicker and tends t...

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Let's say there is a trial and a person is found guilty of committing a crime such as rape. This person is sentenced the death penalty. Five years after that person was found not guilty. Our first victim was innocent and suffered the fatality of humans" mistakes. ... It is the moral we apply when a person is killed because he killed someone too. ...

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"Though forming just 12.5% of the general population aged 15 and over, 42% of all criminal apprehensions involve a person identifying as Maori, as do 50% of all persons in prison." ... "Prison does work to prevent criminals harming innocent citizens. ...

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Abstract Capital punishment has long been a topic of great debate in our society. In this paper I will discuss the history of punishment in society that lead to the use of capital punishment. In addition, I will also present evidence that shows that there is racial and socioeconomic disparity, in the application of capital punishment within our legal system. I will look at theories of deterrence, retribution, and just deserts, and analyze the deterrent effect that statistics show capital punishment has on our society. Evidence will show that there is not enough data to support the finding that...

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Victimology refers to the scientific study of the "extent, nature and causes of criminal victimisation, it's consequences for the persons involved and the reactions thereto by society". ... Moreover, it became evident that women were fundamentally presumed guilty until proven innocent. ...

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The education offers a modicum for the authority required in self-creation of a person, and makes the inmates in some modest way become masters of their own minds. ... It therefore appears wrong to instigate this heavy burden on innocent law-abiding citizens by forcing them to pay for those that have done crimes. ...

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"Some prisoners may have to deal with a few feet less of cell space," Helms told Senators, "but that is far better than to continue to turn loose violent felons to kill or rape innocent citizens." ... "Each time we send someone to jail for a nonviolent crime, the taxpayers have to pay for that person to sit in a cell, watch television, and become less employable. ...

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These theories "look back" to the wrong action in order to explain why the person who performed it deserves punishment. ... Criticisms of consequentialist approaches center on worries that social utility will take precedence over wrongdoers' rights or even lead to the punishment of innocents. ...

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Every part of the confinement requires first level vendors and a cascade of other vendors, making every homosexual person arrested a profitable endeavor for all involved. ... Many of them are Falun Gong practitioners, who are totally innocent people only because they have different believe to CCPG. ...

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The US is the only nation to used methods such as the electric chair, and the only nation to execute persons for crimes they committed as juveniles. Furthermore, the recent use of DNA evidence has found that 1/3rd of all death row inmates could not have committed their crime (are innocent). ...

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Disparity in Profiling on the Streets "Racial disparities affect not only guilty but also innocent minorities. ... Of numerous studies of death penalty outcomes reviewed by the GAO, 82% found that imposition of the death penalty was more likely in the case of a white victim than in the case of a black victim.11 To give another example, defendants charged in Georgia with killing white victims were 4.3 times more likely to receive the death penalty than defendants charged with killing black victims.12 The Baldus study also found that more than 50% of those sentenced to death for killing a white ...

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