Fundamental Fairness: A Response to Professor Bibas

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Almost no one in the legal academy has written more (or better) about guilty pleas and plea bargains than Stephanos Bibas. It is, therefore, fitting that he should author one of the first articles on Padilla v. Kentucky—a guilty-plea decision that may be the most important opinion on the topic in a generation.