JOIN THE MOVEMENT
No More Plea Agreements is building a national movement to restore the American jury trial to its intended place in our justice system.
Our goal is not simply to criticize plea bargaining. It is to educate Americans about how the system works, expose the pressures that discourage trials, advocate for reform, and build public support for a criminal justice system capable of respecting the constitutional right to trial.
GET INFORMED
If you have no control over your rights, and they have all the control, you are being oppressed.
The definition of TYRANNY:
Tyranny is the exercise of oppressive, arbitrary, or unjust governmental power, especially when those exercising authority disregard legal limits, individual rights, or meaningful restraints on their power.
The Constitution was designed to restrain concentrated government power. The jury trial is one of those restraints.
SPREAD THE MESSAGE
Knowledge does nothing if it stops with you.
Share the facts. Send people to this website. Explain why jury trials have become extraordinarily rare and why a justice system dependent on guilty pleas deserves public scrutiny.
Educate. Share. Organize. Demand accountability.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE ACT TOGETHER?
The plea system survives because nearly everyone is pressured to participate.
When people exercise their right to trial, the government must do its job.
Prosecutors must prove their cases. Courts must provide judges, juries, and courtrooms. Those who qualify must be provided counsel.
The government cannot simply spend its way out of unlimited trials.
Eventually, lawmakers must confront the system itself.
One defendant can be pressured. Millions exercising the same constitutional right can force a nation to confront the problem.
WHAT CHANGES WHEN WE WORK TOGETHER?
The pressure shifts.
When enough Americans insist on their constitutional right to trial, the burden moves back where it belongs:
THE GOVERNMENT MUST PROVE ITS CASE.
Courts must handle the trials.
Prosecutors must present the evidence.
Public defense systems must provide representation to those who qualify.
The system would be forced to confront its dependence on guilty pleas.
Congress and state legislatures would face a choice:
Reform criminal law, sentencing, funding, and prosecution practices—
or face a justice system that can no longer process cases at the same volume.
Bottom line
Individually, defendants face the pressure of the system.
Together, they can put pressure on the system itself.
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