Faculty Enrichment Lecture - Ronald Wright "Groupthink and Plea Bargaining: Examining Judges' Role in the Negotiations"
Professor Ronald Wright is one of the nation's best known criminal justice scholars and a Needham Yancey Gulley Professor of Criminal Law at Wake Forest University. He is the co-author of two casebooks in criminal procedure and sentencing; his empirical research concentrates on the work of criminal prosecutors. He is a board member of the Prosecution and Racial Justice Project of the Vera Institute of Justice, and has been an advisor or board member for Families Against Mandatory Minimum Sentences (FAMM), North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, Inc., and the Winston-Salem Citizens' Police Review Board. Prior to joining the faculty at Wake Forest University, he was a trial attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, prosecuting antitrust and other white-collar criminal cases.
Please join us in welcoming Ronald Wright to the Boyd School of Law for his Faculty Enrichment lecture, "Groupthink and Plea Bargaining: Examining Judges' Role in the Negotiations," on February 4, 2019.
