Response, What’s Good About Trials?

Authors

Michael M. O'Hear, Marquette University Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2007

Publication Information

Reproduced with permission of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, from Michael M. O’Hear, Response, What’s Good About Trials?, 156 U. Pa. L. Rev. PENNumbra 209 (2007), http://www.pennumbra.com/responses/11-2007/Ohear.pdf; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.

Source Publication

156 University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNumbra 209 (2007)

Abstract

This response questions whether trial distortion represents a significant problem. Professor O'Hear believes our main focus should be on “mak[ing] plea bargaining processes look more like trial processes.” According to Professor O'Hear, “The trick is to find ways of injecting the values of voice, neutrality, and respect into the plea bargaining process without robbing plea bargaining of its efficiency advantages over the trial process.”

Comments

In response to Ronald F. Wright, Trial Distortion and the End of Innocence in Federal Criminal Justice, 154 U. Pa. L. Rev. 79 (2005).

Repository Citation

O'Hear, Michael M., "Response, What’s Good About Trials?" (2007). Faculty Publications. 569.
https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/facpub/569