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Plea Bargaining and the Administration of Criminal Justice in Nigeria: A Moral Critique

The idea of "justice" normatively reflects "justitia" in the Roman worldview: "fiat justitia, ruat caelum" (may there be justice though the heavens fall).That is, justice must prevail no matter whose ox is gored.In its corrective schema, justice is connected to the ideas of just desert.Justice in this sense is possible through a just law couched within the principle of retributivism (where punishment is proportionate to the severity of crime).This idea must remain intact if criminal justice, as a form of social control, is to attain the moral and political legitimacy to which it aspires.Unfort…