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Plea bargaining violates the legal notion of due desert
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- Ashworth, Andrew. "Sentencing and Criminal Justice" (Law in Context) - Argues that the practice of plea bargaining unjustly creates an avenue for criminals to be punished less severely than they deserve, contradicting the notion of "due desert" or proportional punishment.
- Cahill, Michael T, and Robinson, Paul H. Law Without Justice, How Criminal Law Doesn’t Give People What They Are Due.: Argues in several chapters that plea bargaining violates due desert.
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