He was concerned that without a judge playing an active role, a defendant might plead guilty to something substantially more or less than he was really guilty of in return for a lesser sentence.

He should have never plead guilty, we also think that the sentencing is too harsh.

I definitely don't plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

If you charge him with that, then he can go to court and plead guilty to a misdemeanor and you can't charge him again.

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge

His work was path-breaking when published, and each became a seminal work in the area, by which I mean the book or article spawned an immense work and scholarship including many subsequent books by his former students at Yale Law School.