Plea bargain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A plea bargain (also plea agreement , plea deal or copping a plea ) is an agreement in a criminal case where by the prosecutor offers the defendant the opportunity to plead guilty, usually to ...
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There is no perfect or simple definition of PLEA BARGAINING. Black's Law Dictionary defines it as follows: ... In practice, PLEA bargaining often represents not so much "mutual satisfaction" as perhaps "mutual acknowledgement" of the strengths or weaknesses of both the charges and the defenses, against a backdrop of...
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''Not until the crush of civil litigation brought on by the explosion of personal-injury cases in the industrial era did judges begin to appreciate the workload relief plea bargaining promised.'' In other words, plea bargaining is arguably another outgrowth of late-19th-century industrialization.
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www.truthinjustice.org/bargaining.htm
www.truthinjustice.org/bargaining.htm
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PLEA BARGAINING’S TRIUMPH: A HISTORY OF PLEA BARGAINING IN AMERICA by George Fisher. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. $65.00. 397 pp. Hardcover ISBN 0-8047-4459-9. ... A current description of felony courts must begin with two basic observations: 1) about 90% of people indicted for felony crimes will...
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"The Office of the Prosecutor, once that request was made, began to analyze the terms of the proposal, which haven’t been conciliated with the parts that have done it, such as with the United States District Attorney," de los Santos said in reference to the plea bargaining reportedly taking place in New York.
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Either side may begin negotiations over a proposed plea bargain, though obviously both sides have to agree before one comes to pass. Plea bargaining usually involves the defendant's pleading guilty to a lesser charge, or to only one of several charges.
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But we should not be misled into thinking that these are examples where prosecutors have simply "gone too far." No, the very nature of plea bargaining violates all standards of decency, as the following tale will illustrate:
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How Does "Plea Bargaining" Work? ... For example, if your attorney can begin negotiations with a prosecutor while the police are still investigating or before you are formally charged with a crime, you may be able to obtain a reduction of charges that would not be available after charges are officially filed.
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www.expertlaw.com/library/criminal/plea_bargains.html
www.expertlaw.com/library/criminal/plea_bargains.html
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Plea bargaining is enormously popular with prosecutors; according to researcher Douglas Guidorizzi, something like 90 percent of criminal cases end in a plea bargain. In recent decades, ... it simply fails to decrease the other's sentence -- something to which neither defendant is entitled to begin with. The disparity of...
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www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv26n3/v26n3-8.pdf
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