The Importance Of Plea Bargaining In Criminal Trials

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the truly guilty criminal is punished. In
our less than perfect world, plea bargaining is easily the lesser of the evils.

I agree with the definitions submitted by the affirmative speaker.

Americans have always emphasized getting a job done. We place a great
deal of value on efficiency and industry. The government is expected to run
with efficiency and operate with the good of the people in mind. Every aspect
of our lives is governed by this utilitarian value. Why do we place such
importance on efficiency? Because without it nothing would ever get done. If
we all constantly obsessed over minute details and unrealistic ideals we would
live in poverty. In the real world compromises are made because without them no
amount of success could ever be achieved. In the words of John Stewart Mill,
the father of utilitarianism, "The creed which accepts as the foundation of
morals utility, or the greatest happiness principle, holds that actions are
right in proportion as they ...

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would violate the constitutional rights of those accused.

The affirmative speaker believes that plea bargaining does not reveal
the truth. He has said that there is often lying and inaccurate accounts of the
truth as a result of plea bargaining. I believe that the opposition is wrong.
There may be cases where there is lying but every part of the court system will
have a little of that. The affirmative speaker has totally contradicted himself.
He stated that plea bargaining is when a person admits to his crime and
therefore is rewarded with a lighter sentence. Is the affirmative side saying
that criminals admit to other crimes than what they have done. It appears to me
that he ...

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