The United States Sentencing Commission was created to develop federal sentencing guidelines, which restrict judicial discretion and were found to increase the average sentence length while leaving unchanged the likelihood of resolution through plea bargaining. A game theoretic model is developed in which a sentencing commission may impose guidelines or defer to judicial discretion; then a defe...

The institutions of the prosecution and defence are recognised as equitable related that facilitate activities judiciary. consolidation new status institution in judicial system necessitates study forms communication between court, principles such interaction, including consideration international standards European experience. novelty is determined by fact interaction a lawyer prosecutor can o...

Prior research has established that crime victims’ and defendants’ demographic traits affect the sentence criminal defendants receive. In addition, previous studies have found judges’ juries’ biases outcomes in cases. Yet, despite significant scholarly attention to effect of race gender on sentencing, no study explored whether prosecutors’ influence outcome This is surprising, given prosecutors...

In an era in which extensive judicial emphasis has been placed on "due process of law" in criminal proceedings, both in the federal courts and in the state courts, Dr. Szasz's book serves as a jarring reminder that in at least one vital area of the concept of due process, much remains to be done. The emerging definition of due process has enunciated the rights guaranteed the individual by the F...