In a debate round, about Plea Bargaining, i am in negation, so I WANT Plea Bargaining.?

Question

1. What do I value?

2. Why do we need plea bargaining?

please elaborate

Thanks!

Answer 1

Plea bargaining is used to avoid a trial. The benefits of avoiding a trial are:

1) saves court resources required for a trial... judges, jury, prosecuters, defenders, police, court rooms.

2) Avoiding a trial can reduce the burden placed on victims during the trial. This is especially important with sexual assault or other crimes where the victim may be traumatized.

3) Plea bargaining can speed up the application of justice. Both defendent and public get the situation over with quicker.

Answer 2

Plea bargaining -- bargaining for a plea (of guilty) -- exists to make the legal system quicker.

It allows someone who knows they are guilty to accept sentence -- usually in exchange (the bargaining part) for getting a lesser charge or a lower sentence than they might get at trial -- and the state avoids the hassle and expense of the trial.

If the defendant isn't getting a better deal than they would at trial -- they have no incentive to accept the plea offer.

Answer 3

We all want freedom!!! Plea bargaining is essential to keep cost down and to over ride mandatory sentencing. I have always been guilty but never admitted it. I ALWAYS take the best deal I can get.I always plea out and keep my mouth shut, this way no one actually knows exactly what someone has done just the charges or reduced charge.

Answer 4

Neg for this resolution is pretty tough. Even though it saves on court costs, that doesn't mean that equals justice. Also the amount of criminals it processes and the time it saves on doing that is semi-irrelevant because justice does not directly correlate to the number of criminals we bring in...