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Nearly all criminal cases are resolved through a guilty plea and most of those pleas are the result of bargaining between the prosecutor and defendant. Plea bargaining is ultimately a negotiation and the classic bargaining chips are the potential sentence and charges the defendant faces. But increasingly the range of bargaining chips is expanding. A number of high profile criminal cases makes clear that prosecutors and defendants also bargain over whether and how the state will pursue criminal charges against the defendant’s family members, including children. Professor Johnson will discuss how the use of family as a bargaining chip raises complicated ethical and legal questions about how the state exercises its immense power over defendants. Please contact Cassidy Vernon (cassidyvernon@arizona.edu) for more information.
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