According to the ruling in ___________,prosecutors may,for example,threaten repeat offenders with life sentences under habitual offender statutes if they do not agree to plead guilty and accept specified terms of imprisonment.

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Bordenkircher v. Hayes (1978) is the Supreme Court case that held that prosecutors may threaten repeat offenders with harsher sentences in order to secure a guilty plea, as long as the defendant is not coerced and the prosecutor has probable cause to believe that the defendant actually committed the offense.

According to the Ruling in ___________,Prosecutors May,for Example,threaten Repeat Offenders