About the Book
Plea Bargaining Across Borders
First Edition Jenia I. Turner, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law 2009. 320 pages. ISBN: 978-0-7355-7571-4.
With Professor’s Notes.
About the Book
Plea Bargaining Across Borders: Criminal Procedure can be used alongside any criminal procedure casebook to explore how criminal defendants are treated under different national and international jurisdictions. Jenia Iontcheva Turner employs realistic hypothetical scenarios to illustrate how different attitudes toward plea bargaining and sentencing can produce a range of outcomes across jurisdictions. Organized and presented for students who may not be familiar with comparative and international law, Plea Bargaining Across Borders: Criminal Procedure features: Incorporating materials common to the leading criminal procedure casebooks, Plea Bargaining Across Borders can be easily adapted to your criminal procedure syllabus. The entire book may be assigned over four or five classes, or single chapters may be inserted into the semester to introduce a transnational perspective to your course.
* those that allow plea bargaining in all cases (e.g., the United States and international criminal courts)
* those that allow plea bargaining only for minor crimes (e.g., Germany, Bulgaria)
* those that do not formally allow plea bargaining under any circumstances (e.g., Japan), but that employ practices that are functionally similar to plea bargaining
* a brief history of plea bargaining in each jurisdiction
* relevant primary sources of law
* analysis that focuses on the participants, timing, and setting of negotiations and on the subject matter of plea agreements
* discussion of the legal conditions for a valid guilty plea
* discussion of the law regarding withdrawal of a guilty plea and breach of a plea agreement
* scholarly commentary supporting or criticizing plea bargaining
* hypothetical drug trafficking and homicide scenarios