Debra Emmelman. “Trial by Plea Bargain: Case Settlement as a Product of Recursive Decisionmaking”. Law & Society Review, Vol. 30, No. 2. (1996) – “Viewed as a component of recursive decisionmaking, plea bargaining can be seen as including multiple episodes of negotiating behavior as well as a wide range of litigation proceedings. Perhaps most important, plea bargaining and trial can actually be seen to converge: not only are plea bargain negotiations “rehearsals of scenes that participants would be willing to portray before a jury” (Maynard 1984b:114), but pretrial and trial proceedings are oftentimes precursors for case settlement.”[1]
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