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How the system really works in Baltimore

By Mark Obbie

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Courthouse beat reporters -- and, worse still, the horde that descends on headline-making trials -- distort reality when they gravitate to the rare juicy trial to the exclusion of the plea-bargaining machine that disposes of the vast majority of cases and makes all courthouses hum. Which is why the Baltimore Sun's Melissa Harris deserves credit for her smart, streetwise story on that city's courthouse logjam. It's full of the gritty realities of plea negotiations and trial gamesmanship.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on October 10, 2008 (boomark / email).

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