Plea bargaining is right and proper and should be continued. In the United States plea bargaining is considered an essential part of the criminal justice system (Terrill, 2013, p. 82). I consider plea bargaining a necessary evil. With overwhelming court dockets, a plea bargain allows the prosecutor to streamline the court docket as well as minimizing costs (Savitsky, 2009, p. 9). It would be impossible and take entirely too much time to take every case to trial. When a defendant receives less time to serve in prison, I consider it a trade-off because it is possible the prosecutor could lose the case at trial. I understand why people get frustrated with plea bargains and I have often been upset when a prosecutor accepted a plea bargain
