Repository Faculty Scholarship Series Yale Law School Faculty Scholarship 1-1-1979 Understanding the Short History of Plea Bargaining John H. Langbein Yale Law School Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers Part of the Civil Procedure Commons Recommended Citation Langbein‚ John H.‚ "Understanding the Short History of Plea Bargaining" (1979). Faculty Scholarship Series. Paper 544. http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/544 This Article
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implications of the insanity plea‚ a few questions should be kept in mind---1. How can we be sure that a person is indeed insane (he could be putting on a show) and 2. Should a mentally ill person be punished at all. Today in our legal system‚ there are numerous amounts of defense tactics that are designed to protect the rights of the accused‚ and to further the process of justice. However‚ in many cases this augmentation of justice has been taken too far‚ and as a result‚ pleas such as “Temporary insanity”
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above-entitled question is no‚ the Museum of Tolerance is not tolerant. The long answer‚ since everything has both long and short answers these days‚ is the Museum tries to be as tolerant as it can‚ but as my guide commented "humanity is simply incapable of not being prejudiced." Instead of spending the following pages explaining why this exhibit is less tolerant then that exhibit‚ I would like to break this paper up into two parts: the first a discussion on the tolerance of the museum’s Tolerancenter and
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acknowledge it. Institutions that hold great power have composed what is right and wrong to those under their control. However‚ when an individual’s personal convictions come into conflict with authorities established morality‚ punishments often follow. Voltaire was correct in his assertion that “it is dangerous to be right” because there are many consequences‚ especially when authorities can become easily corruptible. People in power want to keep their position. They will often stop at nothing to destroy
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Developing a Tolerance for Ambiguity By Greg | Published: January 14‚ 2010 Celebrate your appreciation for ambiguity with a T-shirt like this from the Mental Floss store Early in my career at GE‚ one of the leadership values the company mentioned‚ but never really emphasized‚ was a “tolerance for ambiguity”. There was never any coaching on how to develop such a capability. Even now‚ I can’t really find a reference to it on the web (though current GE CEO Jeff Immelt recently emphasized the need
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In addition to comically expressing themselves‚ Shane Dawson and Voltaire have also spoken out against the government‚ indicating their lack of trust in it. During the Age of Enlightenment‚ while all aspects of European life were being re-evaluated‚ Voltaire criticized the government officials that were in power at the time through his satirical writing. Some of this problematic writing included satirical poems in which Voltaire “[ridiculed] the incestuous love affairs of the new French regent‚ Philippe
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founding fathers of the United States‚ Voltaire was a deist who believed that God had created everything but then let it evolve on its own. Although educated by the Jesuits‚ Voltaire hated the Catholic Church. He is famously quoted to have said "Ecrasez l ’infame" ‘Crush the horrible thing!’ referring to the Church. He had written most of his life on religious tolerance but the Jean Calas affair gave him the focus he needed and in 1763 he published A Treatise on Tolerance that focused entirely on the case
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Reciprocal Tolerance: A National Ideal Stephen L. Carter’s “The Culture of Disbelief” is a sweeping reminder regarding a social trend that pricks the religious sensibility of this devout citizen. The rhetorical situation he isolated craftily confronts his perception of the not so subtle prohibition on public exhibitions of personal belief. Using Stephen Carter’s article as sounding board‚ this cause and effect paper will show the need for sensitivity to individual belief‚ diversity
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Con’s of Plea bargaining In the United States. The creation and application of plea bargaining in our legal system has been in existence since the early seventeenth century. However‚ for as long as plea bargaining has been utilized it is unclear how this process fits into our legal system. The goals of our legal system are retribution‚ deterrence‚ incapacitation or rehabilitation‚ however plea bargaining fails to support any of these goals (Stitt & Chaires‚ p.73). Currently plea bargaining
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perception of a courtroom has been molded into the minds of Americans through television. The real picture of how the majority of cases are tried is not in a courtroom‚ but a small room with the prosecutor who pushes the defendant to take a plea bargain. Plea bargaining is a process that uses negotiation to entice the defendant into pleading guilty to a lesser charge or only one of several charges without going to trial‚ which is a violation
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