Judges will campaign on efficiency [and] in order to do that, to say I have the smallest docket of all judges, they force the prosecutors to plead more cases and force the defendants to plead to them, by issuing high bonds and refusing to lower them. That external pressure feeds the lock-them-up system.[229] There is nothing inherently wrong with plea deals as long as the plea process is not coercive.[235] Coercion arises when prosecutors leverage the threat of an egregiously long sentence to induce defendants to plead guilty to a lesser one, or when unreasonably high bail means that the only way to escape lengthy pretrial detention is to plead to probation, time served, or relatively short incarceration
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Member of Puyallup Tribe Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison for Shooting Death of his Friend Dennis Jacobsen, a member of the Puyallup Tribe, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for the fatal shooting of someone he considered a friend
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