Prosecutors Designate 2-Block Section A 'No Plea' Zone

No more plea bargains would be made for anybody arrested in the neighborhood, where cocaine customers lined up to make buys in what had become an open-air drug market. " The no-plea-bargain policy and other efforts by a neighborhood improvement group have chased away the cocaine dealers and their customers.It was a revolutionary change for City Court, where plea bargains are so much a part of the fabric of the judicial system that few defendants ever get convicted as charged, and most walk out with no criminal record."