In the designated no-plea zone, the rules are new and tougher, and they are sending out a strong message: Commit a crime and you'll do the time.
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."
Thanks to Bernie Wagenblast
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