Law School for Everyone
Season 1
Ep 24. Plea Bargains, Jury Trials, and Justice
- TV-PG
- September 22, 2017
- 36 min
Ninety-percent of all criminal cases, surprisingly, don't end in a trial but in a plea bargain. In this lecture, consider both plea bargains and criminal trials and how they complement one another. How - and why - did plea bargains come to dominate American justice? How does the jury system work?