Supreme Court rulings on plea bargains to have large impact, local lawyers say

Two recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings on plea bargains will have a large impact on the criminal justice system, a local law professor said Thursday.

"I think these are big cases and they'll have as big effect as any Supreme Court case," said Ron Wright, a professor at Wake Forest University School of Law.

In two separate cases this week, a divided Supreme Court ruled that defendants have a