Video Resources

Video 1: Plea bargaining in America

Description: Two experts, Jay Schweikert of the Cato Institute and Timothy Sandefur of the Goldwater Institute, discuss the rise of plea bargaining in the second video of a POLICY brief series on criminal justice.

Video 2: ‘Journey to Justice’: An Inside Look at Federal Criminal Trials

Description: A panel discussion featuring two federal judges, and a federal prosecutor and defender, aided by a video of a crime in progress, provide a probing inside look at how federal criminal trials unfold.

Video 3: How states fool juries

Description: Oxford mathematician, Peter Donnelly, reveals the common mistakes humans make in interpreting statistics—and the devastating impact these errors can have on the outcome of criminal trials.