Texas A&M University School of Law Texas A&M Law Scholarship Faculty Scholarship 3-2010 Plea Bargaining as a Legal Transplant: A Good Idea for Troubled Criminal Justice Systems Cynthia Alkon Texas A&M University School of Law,
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[email protected]. Plea Bargaining as a Legal Transplant: A Good Idea for Troubled Criminal Justice Systems? Cynthia Alkon* I. INTRODUCTION ......................................................... 356 II. TROUBLED CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS: WHAT COUNTRIES FALL UNDER THIS CATEGORY?9 ......... 359 III. PLEA BARGAINING TRANSPLANTS: Two EXAMPLES.............. 360 A. The Republic of Georgia................................... 362 1. Background............................................ 362 2. Plea Bargaining ...................................... 363 a) Plea Bargaining in the Georgian Criminal Procedure Code .............................. 363 b) Plea Bargaining in Practice................ 365 B. Bosnia and Herzegovina..................................