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What determines criminal proceedings in court? "Sentencing disparity presents serious problems. It manifests the failure of the system to achieve the goal of equal justice under law..." To suggest that the outcome of court proceedings in the criminal justice system today depended only on the guilt or innocence of the defendants would not only be a naive belief, but probably a very rare one. Not only are defendants categorised and treated according to race, class and gender (leading to unequal numbers of convictions), but added to this are questions regarding the impartiality of the other actors in the proceedings, for example, the lawyers, the judges, the magistracy, and even those at the top end of the criminal justice system, the Law Lords. It is also a shocking fact that geography, or where the trial is held, can affect a defendants chances of imprisonment. In this essay I shall attempt to assess...

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