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Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System
By Rakoff, Jed S.
- ISBN
- 9780374289997
- Publisher
- Farrar
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Reviewed on December 1, 2020 | Social Sciences
Senior U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York Rakoff explores faults of the American criminal justice system. He explains how mandatory minimum sentencing, prosecutorial reliance on plea bargaining, and misguided legislation have hamstrung the judiciary with the inability to positively influence the very system in which it lives. Having served on the National Commission on Forensic S...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
