Clark Neily of the Cato Institute

If you're arrested and indicted for a crime you didn't commit, no need to worry, right? The criminal justice system will give you a fair shake. Right? Well, not so fast, according to Clark Neily. Clark is the Vice President for Criminal Justice at the Cato Institute. In this interview, Clark and I discuss plea bargaining. Criminal cases almost never go to a jury trial. The default assumption is that a defendant will plead guilty and accept a sentence. If he or she refuses to plead guilty, prosecutors often add a pile of other supposed crimes, often referred to as a "trial penalty." 

In this interview, Clark and I discuss the problems with the plea bargaining system, and how to fix them.