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CON – PREVENTS COURT OVERLOAD
The plea bargain is critical to ensuring that courts are not overloaded by
cases. In fact, without plea bargains, 20 times as many cases would flood the
courts
Renada Williams-Fisher 2005 (Plea Bargaining Negotiations, South Univ Law Rev 33 no1 Fall 2005)

Within the criminal justice system, courts are experiencing an overload in cases waiting to go to trial. One effective way to
prevent our justice system from being burdened by such an overload is to allow plea bargaining negotiations. Plea
bargaining negotiation plays a pivotal role in today's judicial system, because today, ninety to ninety-five percent of the cases
inside the justice system are adjudicated by pleas.'

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