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Originally posted by MRM
No. Plea bargaining has always been an essential part of the common law based legal system....
Probably at least 95% of all cases are plea bargained today....
In the old days there was relatively less crime and fewer civil rights so it was easy to try cases quickly and cheaply so there was probably less plea bargaining. But there has always been plea bargaining and the vast majority of convictions have always been obtained through guilty pleas.
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I'm just curious as to what say a "ballpark" percentage would have been in say 1950 (or any other period really), for plea bargains?