{"id":11550,"date":"2023-04-01T14:02:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T14:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-plea-bargaining-for-the-defense-attorney-prosecution-judge-and-of-course-the-defendant-are-defendants-being-coerced-into-accepting-a-plea-deal-explain\/"},"modified":"2023-04-01T14:02:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T14:02:52","slug":"what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-plea-bargaining-for-the-defense-attorney-prosecution-judge-and-of-course-the-defendant-are-defendants-being-coerced-into-accepting-a-plea-deal-explain","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/what-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-plea-bargaining-for-the-defense-attorney-prosecution-judge-and-of-course-the-defendant-are-defendants-being-coerced-into-accepting-a-plea-deal-explain\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the pros and cons of plea bargaining for the defense attorney, prosecution, judge, and of course, the defendant?  Are defendants being coerced into accepting a plea deal? Explain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you are faced with criminal prosecution, you could take your case to trial, or if&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>offered, accept a plea bargain in exchange for a guilty plea. However, going to trial can be risky since the fate of that trial is in the hands of a jury, which will decide guilt or innocence.  Most defendants will accept a plea agreement rather than taking the risk of a jury trial.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What are the pros and cons of plea bargaining for the defense attorney, prosecution, judge, and of course, the defendant?  Are defendants being coerced into accepting a plea deal? Explain.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are faced with criminal prosecution, you could take your case to trial, or if&nbsp; offered, accept a plea bargain in exchange for a guilty plea. However, going to trial can be risky since the fate of that trial is in the hands of a jury, which will decide guilt or innocence. Most defendants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[224],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/11550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/11550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=11550"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=11550"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=11550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}