{"id":85899,"date":"2018-05-07T00:59:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T04:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sentencing.net\/?p=85899"},"modified":"2019-11-06T10:54:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T15:54:30","slug":"sentencing-bargaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sentencing.net\/sentencing\/sentencing-bargaining","title":{"rendered":"What Is Sentencing Bargaining, and Why Do We Do It?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t
It takes place in private. Sometimes it occurs within a matter of minutes. And it has a massive impact on a person\u2019s life. It is the practice of plea bargaining, which sometimes takes the form of sentencing bargaining.<\/p>\n
You cannot read a book or watch a television program about a legal case where the concept of plea bargaining does not come up. It is ubiquitous in our system of criminal justice, and it is a practice with the least amount of checks and balances.<\/p>\n
What is so unusual about the practice of plea bargaining and sentencing bargaining is that it has limited judicial oversight, but it is the way virtually all<\/em> criminal cases are resolved. Very few cases go to trial these days. Between 90 to 99 percent of criminal cases in state and federal courts throughout the country end with a plea bargain.<\/p>\n