Should The Nature Of The Crime Affect The Dependents Opportunity To Plea Bargin?
Plea bargains are one of my pet peeves as a probation court officer as the concept once used as effective tool to protect victims, mostly children, from trauma of court hearings, has become an abused tool used by attorneys and prosecutors to make their job easier and decrease court dockets, it is also abused by prosecutors to intimidate offenders to plea to charge without trial even though they are not guilty or the case is weak by threatening the offender with much more severe sentences if they refuse the plea. I personally witnessed many people plea to a charge they did not commit because they did not want to risk it. Most of the threats by prosecutors were just threats and usually meant they had a weak case. It would still be the Judges or jurys decision. I would advice my probationers that if they were guilty or had weak defense the plea bargain was in best interest as jurys tend to be severe because watch too much tv or misunderstand the system. Most every crime is applicable for
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