Monitoring the Plea Process

Authors

Susan R. Klein

Abstract

Gideon v. Wainwright heralded a new age in American criminal prosecutions. With the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel incorporated into the Fourteenth Amendment and applied to the states, all suspects, rich or poor, might indeed have equal access to justice. Indigent black men in the South would have the same opportunity to fight felony criminal charges and would receive the same sentencing discounts of favorable guilty pleas as rich white Northerners, and the innocent would be accurately separated by adversarial testing from the guilty.

First Page

559

Recommended Citation

Susan R. Klein, Monitoring the Plea Process, 51 Duq. L. Rev. 559 (2013).
Available at: https://dsc.duq.edu/dlr/vol51/iss3/5