Recognizing the increasingly dominant role of plea bargaining in the American criminal justice system, legal scholars … to the acceptance of outcomes and the perceived legitimacy of the criminal justice system. Drawing on the extensive … social psychology research on procedural justice, this Article proposes five process norms that prosecutors ought to observe …

Plea bargaining is the cornerstone of the U.S. criminal justice system and the bargaining in the shadow of the trial …

. After all, in a criminal justice system that is largely composed of plea bargains, what is effective assistance of counsel …

For many decades, courts across the United States have experimented with administering justice in virtual spaces. But …