The screening/bargaining tradeoff.(using prosecutorial screening rather than relying on plea bargaining to obtain a more just criminal justice system)

From: Stanford Law Review | Date: October 1, 2002| Author: Miller, Marc; Wright, Ronald | Copyright information 
INTRODUCTION 
I. A FALSE DICHOTOMY: PLEA BARGAINING VERSUS TRIALS 
   A.      The Traditional Plea Bargain/Trial Tradeoff 
   B.      Traditional Alternatives to Plea Bargaining 
     1.    Short trials 
     2.    Plea bans 
II. THE SCREENING ALTERNATIVE 
   A.      Screening as Random Event of Plan? 
   B.      Screening as Threat of Opportunity? 
   C.      Setting Prosecutorial Goals from the Inside 
   D.      Internal Prosecutorial Responses to Plea Bargaining 
III. THE SCREENING/BA...

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