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Plea bargaining is criticized, particularly outside the United States, on the grounds that its close relationship with rewards, threats and coercion potentially endanger the correct legal outcome.

Author Martin Yant discusses the use of coercion in plea bargaining:

This tactic is prohibited in some other countries--for example in the United Kingdom the prosecutor's code states:

although it adds that in some kinds of complex cases such as major fraud trials:

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