Punishment Without Trial (with Carissa Byrne Hessick)
Jan 14, 2022•56 min•Ep. 424
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Episode description
Carissa Byrne Hessick joins the podcast to discuss the fact that 97% of convictions in the United States every year are the result of people pleading guilty, often via a plea bargain, rather than having a trial before a jury of their peers.
How did we get to a situation where the vast majority of criminal convictions come prior to any trial taking place?
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