This paper examines the strategic interaction of a defendant and a prosecutor during the plea bargaining process. A four-stage game of incomplete information is developed where the defendant’s guilt or innocence is private information but the amount of resources available to the prosecutor is common knowledge. The basic result of the paper is that equilibrium is semi-separating; the plea o¤er i...

on resolution refutations on pigeonhole principle formulas PHP n . Observe that PHP n has size N = Θ(n3), so the lower bound is, in fact, exp ( Ω ( 3 √ N )) in terms of formula size, and not truly exponential (by which we mean exp(Ω(N)) with the coefficient in the exponent scaling linearly with N ). In order to prove this lower bound we used the Prosecutor–Defendant game, where Prosecutor asks ...

The justice system is a critical component of a comprehensive response to sexual violence; there is no true offender accountability without it, and, for many victims, it is an important part of healing. When the justice system is ineffective or unresponsive, it not only fails to support victims and keep communities safe, but it has the power to undermine prevention, advocacy, and other critical...

However fundamental he may appear to us, the public prosecutor was an historical latecomer. Judge and jury we can trace back to the high Middle Ages. But the prosecutor became a regular figure of Anglo-American criminal procedure only in Tudor times. Further, his appearance then has not been noticed in our historical literature, an especially remarkable omission when we discover that the prosec...

Allegations of child sexual abuse have considerable consequences for individuals and society. Herein, we report 2 cases of false allegations of child sexual abuse by mothers diagnosed as paranoid disorder. Case 1, a 31-year-old mother accused her husband of sexually abusing her 3 daughters, aged 2, 4, and 6 years. Case 2 is a 30-year-old mother that went to the public prosecutor with allegation...