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Proponents of inquisitorial justice dispute these points.
They point out that most cases in adversarial systems are actually resolved by plea bargain and settlement.
Plea bargain as a system does not exist in an inquisitorial system.
Most legal cases in adversarial systems do not go to trial ; this can lead to great injustice when the defendant has an unskilled or overworked attorney, which is likely to be the case when the defendant is poor.
In addition, proponents of inquisitorial systems argue that the plea bargain system causes the participants within the system to act in perverse ways, in that it encourages prosecutors to bring charges far in excess of what is warranted and defendants to plead guilty even when they believe that they are not.
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