Quotes About Plea Bargaining

#1. 40% of homicides go unsolved. You know, it's not a very good record. And, also, 95% of convictions in America come from plea bargaining, which is often coerced. It's like we have the worst of both worlds. We don't convict the guilty enough, and we coerce the innocent too much.

Bill Maher

#2. The vast majority of criminal cases are settled by plea bargaining. Only the rare civil case goes to trial, not least because most judges now see "case management" rather than presiding over trials as their primary responsibility. Late

Mark Tushnet

#3. In many courts, plea bargaining serves the convenience of the judge and the lawyers, not the ends of justice, because the courts simply lack the time to give everyone a fair trial.

Jimmy Carter

#4. We are not for making shoes, so the shoemakers can have jobs, but so we can wear the shoes.

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

#5. Our biggest challenge is always story. The story is the ultimate thing you try to tackle.

Roy Conli

#6. [We should] set our eyes on the future. The political differences between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan should eventually be solved step by step, and [we] can not let these problems hand on from generation to generation.

Xi Jinping

#7. If you had seen me back in high school, there's no way you would have ever said I would become an author or teacher because I was a horrible student.

Robert Kiyosaki

#8. We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

George Chapman

#9. This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods.

Gary Player

#11. I don't miss politics.

Jeb Bush

#12. So much of what she'd thought was truth before was merely tricks. No more than clever ways of speaking to the world. They were a bargaining. A plea. A call. A cry.
But underneath, there was a secret deep within the hidden heart of things.

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. Well,' replied Tony, 'I think [Christ's] line would be the same as it always has been - that [sex without marriage] is understandable and forgivable, but wrong to the extent that it's less than the best.

Richard Adams

#14. People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.

Imelda May