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Japan to introduce plea bargaining on June 1

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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

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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?

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I can imagine some of aso & abe's underlings would LOVE to do a plea bargain right about NOW!!! Lets get started I say!!!

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Educator60 if you can not understand and insisting on dictionary definition then I have news for you.....

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Japan to introduce plea bargaining on June 1

This seems somewhat contradictory to forced confessions. The dobbers will be out in force!

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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".

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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.

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So - legal proceeding based on poker strategy. Nice.

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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.

In addition to crimes related to drug, gun and bribery cases as stipulated in the law, the cabinet approved a decree to expand the scope of plea bargaining to crimes involving breaching of antitrust and financial instrument as well as exchange laws.

.....The decree also covers the bankruptcy law, patent law, trademark law and copyright law. Organized fraud is also among crimes falling within the scope of plea bargaining in the revised criminal proceedings law.

Under the law, prosecutors may agree not to seek indictment, seek prosecution for less serious charges or demand lighter penalties if a suspect or defendant provides evidence or depositions against accomplices.

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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.

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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.

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This seems somewhat contradictory to forced confessions. The dobbers will be out in force!

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.)

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.

This is correct when everything else is equal. The forced confessions cause the above analysis to be skewed accordingly.

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With Japan's conviction rate @ 99.7%,why the need?

That conviction rate is only for cases that make it to court. I guess the idea is to take more cases to court.

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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.

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I meant unreliable. Some criminals get released by saying "Sumimasen. Korekara yarimasen'.

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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.

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Japanese government milking money through it's court system. Guess any drop of revenue in astronomical bucket of debt counts.

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