Judicial Discretion in the Process of Plea Bargaining: ABrief Analysis
Keywords:
Judicial Discretion, Plea Bargaining, Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), Voluntary Guilty Plea, Sentencing Guidelines, Prosecutorial Coercion, Victim Compensation, Judicial Scrutiny, Case Backlog Reduction, Criminal Justice System ReformAbstract
Due to the absence of explicit, comprehensive norms for court action during plea bargaining, the level of judicial engagement in the bargaining cannot be clearly defined. A judge’s impartiality may be jeopardized by excessive interference, while a lack of intervention may result in an unfair outcome. One might deduce that judicial scrutiny is constrained when it comes to plea bargaining from reading the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Chapter on the subject.
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