Lucian E. Dervan
@luciandervan.bsky.social
Criminal Law Professor, Founding Dir. Plea Bargaining Institute & leading global researcher re plea bargaining & innocence. All views expressed are my own.
Read about how to create a fairer, more just, and more reliable plea bargaining system in this 2023 report from the ABA Criminal Justice Section Plea Bargain Task Force. www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/criminaljustice/plea-bargain-tf-report.pdf
www.americanbar.org
January 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Read about how to create a fairer, more just, and more reliable plea bargaining system in this 2023 report from the ABA Criminal Justice Section Plea Bargain Task Force. www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/criminaljustice/plea-bargain-tf-report.pdf
Additional researchers have conducted similar psychological deception studies since 2013 and found false plea rates “near or exceeding fifty percent.” psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-...
APA PsycNet
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January 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Additional researchers have conducted similar psychological deception studies since 2013 and found false plea rates “near or exceeding fifty percent.” psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-...
Further, a 2013 psychological study I conducted with Dr. Vanessa Edkins found that 56% of the innocent participants were willing to falsely plead guilty to misconduct that had not occurred. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Innocent Defendant’s Dilemma: An Innovative Empirical Study of Plea Bargaining’s Innocence Problem
In 1989, Ada JoAnn Taylor was accused of murder and presented with stark options. If she pleaded guilty, she would be rewarded with a sentence of ten to forty y
papers.ssrn.com
January 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Further, a 2013 psychological study I conducted with Dr. Vanessa Edkins found that 56% of the innocent participants were willing to falsely plead guilty to misconduct that had not occurred. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Various studies have confirmed plea bargaining’s innocence problem. According to the National Registry of Exonerations, for example, false pleas of guilty made up 25% of the exoneration database in 2022. www.law.umich.edu/special/exon...
www.law.umich.edu
January 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Various studies have confirmed plea bargaining’s innocence problem. According to the National Registry of Exonerations, for example, false pleas of guilty made up 25% of the exoneration database in 2022. www.law.umich.edu/special/exon...