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Plea Bargain: Ethical And Legal Case Study

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• A large majority of criminal cases end in a plea bargain. The incentive for a prosecutor to offer or agree to accept a plea bargain it believed to equal a reduction trial caseload for prosecutors. By definition a prosecutor is a officer of the court who institutes legal proceedings in a court of law. The prosecutor must be moral and ethical in his or her practices. Prosecutor’s decision on evidence should be inclined to proceed with moral and ethical reasoning. Prosecutor’s reason to incorporate a plea-bargain choose to expedite a case due to reasons such as inadequate evidence or because the prosecutor simply wants the confession from the accused. These would be legitimate reasoning to incorporate a plea bargain. When plea bargains are

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