COERCION and EXTORTION a/k/a America’s Plea Bargaining System -

COERCION and EXTORTION a/k/a America’s Plea Bargaining System

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Download Podcast For this September 26, 2013 broadcast, your Crimes of the Century co-hosts conduct an online Open House for "The Plea for Justice Program" (P4J), a grassroots initiative to reform America's plea bargaining system. Reports indicate as of mid-Summer 2012 that 97% of federal and 94% of state criminal cases are resolved by plea bargains. Learn why lawyers, legal scholars, and criminal defendants regularly denounce the whole process as unconstitutional coercion and extortion and why coming together through P4J can help turn the situation around.

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