In American courtrooms, we treat a plea bargain like a clean confession. The record says “guilty,” the…
Every day across the United States, people accused of crimes face an impossible gamble: plead guilty (even…
Three years. Six figures of debt. Hours spent parsing 19th-century case law in lecture halls that look…
The Prisoner’s Dilemma isn’t just a cool idea from textbooks — it actually shows up in real-life…
…the jury trial has been replaced, almost exclusively, by a system of secret plea-bargaining negotiations behind closed…
The criminal justice system is built on the idea that people are presumed innocent until proven guilty,…
There are two things I know 100% for sure: prosecutors in America have too much power and…
Convictions, be it felony or misdemeanor, come with collateral consequences. And here’s the part no one tells you when you’re…
Every day, I run into people who still believe the criminal justice system is “fair.” And every…
In America, as soon as we are old enough to put our right hands over our hearts,…
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