Mike Huemer’s new Justice before the Law is predictably excellent. I’ll eventually discuss it in greater depth, but for now I’ll focus on Huemer’s critique of plea bargaining. The heart of the critique is that plea bargaining is coerced confession: It is universally agreed in legal theory that coerced confessions are unacceptable. The main reason is that […]
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