By Hannah Dean, Staff Writer In 2019, the American Bar Association (“ABA”) formed a Plea Bargain Task Force to examine and address the widespread criticisms of the plea bargaining process in the United States.[1] Task force members include judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and law professors.[2] The Task Force released a […]
Photo provided courtesy of Pixabay. By: Rachel Pressdee, Feature Editor In May 1993, the town of West Memphis, Arkansas was shaken when the bodies of three slain eight-year-old boys were found in a small section of woods known as Robin Hood Hills. [1] In less than a month, three teenagers […]
By Andrew Beluk, Staff Writer It is nothing new to say that the American criminal justice system has some faults. A common source of criticism stems from prosecutorial overuse of the plea-bargaining system, which accounts for roughly 97% of all federal criminal convictions in the United States.[1] But arguably […]
