Plea Bargaining Advantages

When criminals are arrested and about to be tried in front of a jury of their peers and a judge, they are most likely will be offered a plea deal. Now this plea deal if it is accepted by the offender will stand as their punishment for the crime committed without having to go through court and trial which in some cases helps to spare the victims from having to testify in front of the person that had wronged them. Rape victims are the ones that are the most beneficial from plea bargaining, they do not have to face the offender that brought them such harm. On another note though these offenders are not serving the time that they would originally be given if gone to trial so the victims feel as though there is an injustice to plea bargaining. People that are harmed want their offenders to serve the most time they can so that they are given time to heal and recover from these inhumane acts of committed against them. “The Bureau of Justice Statistics, after studying partial data on state-court felony prosecutions nationwide, found that from 1986 to 2006 the ratio of pleas to trials nearly doubled.” (Oppel, 2011) Is plea bargaining the easy way out for criminals? In a way it is because they would not have to serve the maximum sentence that could have been handed to them
“Without question, plea bargains benefit many defendants who have committed crimes and receive lighter sentences than they might after trial. It also limits cases that require considerable time and expense in court.” (Oppel, 2011) Victims feel as though this gives them less jail time which in turn means that they will be back out on the streets sooner to resume committing these crimes again. Victims fear for their lives and the lives of their family as well because they feel as though there may be some retaliation brought to them because they file charges against