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Letting the public monitor the criminal justice bureaucracy
Letting the public monitor the criminal justice bureaucracy
Responding to Nicola Lacey, Humanizing the Criminal Justice Machine: Re-Animated Justice or Frankenstein's Monster?, 126 Harv. L. Rev. 1299 (2013)
For many years, plea bargaining has been a gray market. Courts are rarely involved, leaving prosecutors unconstrained by judges or juries. Prosecutor’s plea offers largely set sentences, checked only by…