Assigned Reading: Thistlewaite and Wooldredge, Part 2 Chapter 2, The Defense Attorney's Role in Plea Bargaining: Are defendants pressured by their own attorney's to plead guilty? pp. 154-161.
After reading the article answer the following questions in a discussion posting:
You must also comment on two of your classmate's postings by the end of the week.
- Do you think the methodology used to complete this study was valid?
- What limitations do you see, if any, in the way the study was conducted?
- Given the changes in the knowledge of today's defendants as it relates to the legal system and plea bargaining are this study's finding still valid? Why or Why not?