Tag: Prosecutor

2023 Plea Bargain Task Force Report urges fairer, more transparent justice system

CHICAGO (Feb. 22, 2023) – Plea bargaining has become the primary way to resolve criminal cases in the United States, with nearly 98% of convictions nationwide currently coming from guilty pleas. But plea bargaining as currently practiced is often unj
— Read on www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2023/02/plea-bargain-task-force/

Get a .PDF copy of the report HERE

All of the Above: Prosecutors alone won’t end mass incarceration. But their interventions can mean the world to people staring down the many harms of criminalization.

I’m grateful to the five contributors who graciously wrote such thoughtful responses to the short essay by James Forman, Jr., Maria Hawilo, and me, adapted from our forthcoming book Dismantling Mass Incarceration. I’m encouraged that people with such depth of experience agree that taking apart our system of mass incarceration requires grappling with the question of progressive prosecutors, though we may disagree about exactly what that will mean about their role in the long term.
— Read on inquest.org/all-of-the-above/

Chicago Way w/John Kass: Discussion with Rafael Mangual

Excellent!

This podcast covered Policing, Racism, Progressive Prosecutor, & Cash Bail. Rafael Mangual is an expert on these topics. Also see Mangual’s book – there is a link to it at the like below.

Chicago Way w/John Kass: Kindness is for holiday parties, not revolving-door criminal courts – John Kass
— checkout the podcast at johnkassnews.com/chicago-way-w-john-kass-kindness-is-for-holiday-parties-not-revolving-door-criminal-courts/

Surging farebeating is a sign of bad things to come: Reverse the soft-on-crime trend now

Another example of how farebeating enforcement is important for controlling crime and disorder. The other important piece of the puzzle is prosecuting farebeating arrests.

New MTA reporting shows that farebeating on buses and subways is still rising.
— Read on nypost.com/2023/11/25/opinion/surging-farebeating-is-a-sign-of-bad-things-to-come-reverse-the-soft-on-crime-trend-now/

St. Louis Cop Sabotaged His Own Cases to Undermine a Prosecutor — ProPublica

This is an interesting response to a DA’s “No Testify List”. There is no due process for cops on these lists & once you’re on this list you never get removed. Oh yeah Lawyers lie too and there is no list for them.

Across the country, police have undermined and resisted reform. To protest a prosecutor, one detective was willing to let murder suspects walk free, even if he’d arrested them and believed that they should be behind bars.
— Read on www.propublica.org/article/homicide-detective-st-louis-refused-testify-roger-murphey-kim-gardner