You are a criminal defense attorney with a client weighing two options: Accept a plea deal and an automatic five years in prison or go to trial and risk receiving a sentence of 20 years. Your client decides to go to trial. Is the client wrong? According to three Illinois law professors and co-authors of a new book examining the impact of laws on happiness, the answer is no. “Our research shows that 20 years in prison is not nearly four times as bad as five years,” said Jonathan Masur, a professor at …