The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Nguyen, 127 F.3d 1107 (9th Cir. 1997):
3 In any event, the ban on judicial participation in the plea-bargaining process is premised on the "high and unacceptable risk of coercing a defendant to accept the proposed agreement and plead guilty.", United States v. Anderson, 993 F.2d 1435, 1439 (9th Cir.1993).
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