From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #14205 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Thursday, July 4 2024 Volume 14 : Number 14205 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Your Offer is waiting ($90 value) ["Confirmation Needed" Subject: Your Offer is waiting ($90 value) Your Offer is waiting ($90 value) http://screencamera.za.com/EaNry8nb6dzWCm7ia9GdHbXVUfSiQvjJGTfeun1zA8I6WaVPGQ http://screencamera.za.com/5Phv1m99YZgb9HzqXScF2489sBOB_c8bEnCQthFxekKIoF4UVA argaining is criticized, particularly outside the United States, on the grounds that its close relationship with rewards, threats and coercion potentially endanger the correct legal outcome. Author Martin Yant discusses the use of coercion in plea bargaining: Even when the charges are more serious, prosecutors often can still bluff defense attorneys and their clients into pleading guilty to a lesser offense. As a result, people who might have been acquitted because of lack of evidence, but also who are in fact truly innocent, will often plead guilty to the charge. Why? In a word, fear. And the more numerous and serious the charges, studies have shown, the greater the fear. That explains why prosecutors sometimes seem to file every charge imaginable against defendants. This tactic is prohibited in some other countriesbfor example in the United Kingdom the prosecutor's code states: Prosecutors should never go ahead with more charges than are necessary just to encourage a defendant to plead guilty to a few. In the same way, they should never go ahead with a more serious charge just to encourage a defendant to plead guilty to a less serious one. although it adds that in some kinds of complex cases such as major fraud trials: The over-riding duty of the prosecutor is ... to see that justice is done. The procedures must command public and judicial confidence. Many defendants in serious and complex fraud cases are represented by solicitors experienced in commercial litigation, including negotiation. This means that the defendant is usually protected from being put under improper pressure to plead. The main danger to be guarded against in these cases is that the prosecutor is p ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #14205 ***********************************************