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Advantages of Plea Bargaining in Los Angeles

By Steven Rodriguez

TV lawyers are always taking their cases to trial. Those emotional courtroom scenes make for high drama and good TV. What TV doesn’t often show you are the long hours lawyers spend preparing for trial while their clients sit in limbo, often behind bars, awaiting the big day. They also don’t show you the repeated delays and continuances that can drag a defendant’s right to a speedy trial out into months of anxious waiting and needless expense. They don’t usually show you when critical testimony or evidence is thrown out by the judge, evidence the defendant may have been counting on to prove his innocence. Because TV likes to deal in heroes and villains, courtroom dramas rarely show you when a jury of allows their emotions to get in the way of a fair judgment and convicts someone unjustly...continue to full post

Full post as published by LA Criminal Defense Blog on March 30, 2009 (boomark / email).