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dcog9065
Not sure if plea bargaining is a good idea TBH. One only has to look at the legal hell in America to see how it doesn't work as planned
Cricky
you can rape a hotel worker, pay cash and get off, if your the son of a celebrity. You can beat to death a part time worker and get a suspended sentence if you are a company Sachio, think plea bargains are a daily thing already. Why the need to change when it already happens?
GW
I can imagine some of aso & abe's underlings would LOVE to do a plea bargain right about NOW!!! Lets get started I say!!!
Cricky
Educator60 if you can not understand and insisting on dictionary definition then I have news for you.....
Disillusioned
This seems somewhat contradictory to forced confessions. The dobbers will be out in force!
Bubblegun
Seriously! With a 99% conviction rate. I guess they must be aiming for 100%.
I wonder what the conviction rate is for the immigrant population?
MMMM.
I suppose it would take the interrogation, forced confessions, out of the equation, they'll just you a SHITE option ( cause you'll be found guilty anyway) along with a NOT so SHITE Option but you'l still end up coming up with Shite. ( and thats before you get to deal with a 100% japanese Jury judging someone from another country) I sure wouldn't like to be Judged by our so called "peers".
Beatrix
Cracaphat and Bubblegun, plea bargains aren't about improving the conviction rate for those already accused. They're about giving an incentive to those already accused to identify more people involved in the crime.
theFu
So - legal proceeding based on poker strategy. Nice.
arrestpaul
The allowing of plea bargaining should reduce the overall cost of criminal proceedings. Holding trials costs money. Lawyers cost money, Court employees cost money. Plus, plea bargaining reduces the number of criminal trials that must be held. Cases that must go to trial would go to trial sooner.
toshiko
In crimes cases, plea bargaining often expedite sentencing procedure. In rape cases. defense attorneys grill victims on how she was raped step by step. The agonies of victims has. to be reduced. Then there are open and shut cases of murders, too. Civil cases differ but if you want corrupted politicians get arrested, plea bargain encourage them to confess faster. Politicians know jail is not the end of their political career.
toshiko
One warning for foreigners who brag he owns gun in Japan. It is illegal to own guns in Japan and supportiing Trump do not work. Throw away your guns or moved out Okinawa.
Tommy Jones
They are complimentary. The pressure it takes to get a forced confession is beyond what it would generally take for lower charges.
(This train driver is shite.)
This is correct when everything else is equal. The forced confessions cause the above analysis to be skewed accordingly.
albaleo
That conviction rate is only for cases that make it to court. I guess the idea is to take more cases to court.
toshiko
Conviction rate doesn't include criminals who get released because jails are overcrowded. Conviction rates only based on criminals who are tried in a court. Reliable.
toshiko
I meant unreliable. Some criminals get released by saying "Sumimasen. Korekara yarimasen'.
Ex_Res
Plea bargaining could reduce the massive disparity in sentencing qhich seems to exist in Japan. I have recently read of two cases on JT, where a person driving without a valid licence was fined ¥500000 and another person who downloaded child pornography was fined ¥200000.
CoconutE3
Japanese government milking money through it's court system. Guess any drop of revenue in astronomical bucket of debt counts.