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...bizarre story began five years ago, when Justice granted a $10 million contract to Inslaw, a Washington-based software company, to adapt its Promis computer program for use by U.S. Attorneys in keeping track of legal cases. Within a year Justice and Inslaw got into a dispute over the terms of the deal, and the department withheld the first $1.8 million worth of payments due the company. Nonetheless, Justice kept the software that had been delivered, and distributed it to the U.S. Attorneys. Inslaw, meanwhile, slid into bankruptcy proceedings...
...plea bargaining overlooks a basic fact: that it is the right of the defendant to plead guilty as well as to go to trial. The real question is whether by pleading guilty the defendant gains any substantial advantage. A recent study by the Institute for Law and Social Research (INSLAW) shows that those criminals pleading guilty do not gain any particular advantage either in the length of punishment or the seriousness of the crime to which they plead...