"In misdemeanor cases, pretrial detention poses a particular problem because it may induce otherwise innocent defendants to plead guilty in order to exit jail, potentially creating widespread error in case adjudication."
The Downstream Consequences of Misdemeanor Pretrial Detention (2016)
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