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Let's make a deal

The Herald's outstanding series on abuse of the pretrial intervention system continues with the not-expected finding that Sexual abusers of children often get deals, not convictions. Although prosecutors blame state law, I suspect part of the problem is that these are messy cases and underage victims aren't good on the witness stand, so prosecutors are tempted to offer withholding of adjudication deals to dispose of the cases.

An earlier story documented found the not-at-all-surprising fact that whites are more likely to get withholding-of-adjudication deals than blacks.

The whole series is here.



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