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    Prosecutors Overcharge DefendantsTo Force the Innocent to Plead Guilty- To Prevent Clogging of courts with Trials

    Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System Hardcover – February 16, 2021
    by Judge Jed S. Rakoff (Author)
      This judge frequently writes in the NY Review of Books about problems in the justice system.
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    A senior federal judge’s incisive, unsettling exploration of some of the paradoxes that define the judiciary today, Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free features essays examining why innocent people plead guilty, why high-level executives aren’t prosecuted, why you won’t get your day in court, and why the judiciary is curtailing its own constitutionally mandated power.