A plea bargain (also plea agreement or plea deal) is an agreement in criminal law proceedings, whereby the prosecutor provides a concession to the defendant...
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Webster's New World Law Dictionary defines Alford plea as: "A guilty plea entered as part of a plea bargain by a criminal defendant who denies committing...
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Plea bargaining in the United States is very common; the vast majority of criminal cases in the United States are settled by plea bargain rather than...
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defendant; it is thus a type of mitigating factor in sentencing. In a plea bargain, a defendant makes a deal with the prosecution or court to plead guilty...
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Karla Homolka (section Plea bargain controversy)
1992. Homolka attracted worldwide media attention when a controversial plea bargain with Ontario prosecutors meant she was only convicted of manslaughter...
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Nolo contendere (redirect from Plea of nolo contendere)
no-contest plea means that defendants refuse to admit guilt but accept punishment as if guilty, and is often offered as a part of a plea bargain. The plea is...
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murders committed between the early 1980s and late 1990s. As part of his plea bargain, another conviction was added, bringing the total number of convictions...
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the right to receive materially exculpatory evidence before making a plea bargain, which is how the vast majority of convictions are now obtained. The...
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the deterrent effect on other journalists and whistleblowers". In a plea bargain agreed on 24 June 2024, Assange would plead guilty to one count of violating...
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statement, but no gun was recovered. On March 1, 2006, Tate accepted a plea bargain and was to be sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment in a sentencing hearing...
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2002). "Homolka plea deal in doubt". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved April 8, 2018. Jenish, D'Arcy (March 17, 2003). "Homolka's Plea Bargain Revealed". The...
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Julian Assange (section Plea bargain and release)
allowed for Assange's immediate release from the UK to attend the plea hearing. The plea bargain came one month after the UK High Court ruled Assange could bring...
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Jeremy Strohmeyer (section Plea bargain)
trial), but hours before his trial was to start, Abramson entered a plea bargain on his behalf. On September 8, 1998, Strohmeyer pleaded guilty to four...
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criminal counts of rape, kidnapping and aggravated murder as part of a plea bargain. He was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 1,000 years in prison without...
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Robert Berdella (section Plea bargain)
ultimately conducted a plea bargain with the prosecutors in order to avoid the death penalty in these remaining charges. In this plea bargain, Berdella agreed...
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Moshe Katsav (section Plea bargaining and indictment)
of others. Katsav resigned from the presidency in 2007 as part of a plea bargain. Katsav later rejected the deal with prosecutors and vowed he would prove...
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Milan Babić (section Trial and plea bargain)
in 2004 and was the first ever indictee to plead guilty and enter a plea bargain with the prosecution, after which he was sentenced to 13 years in prison...
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discovered more cocaine and drug paraphernalia. In November 2001, through a plea bargain, Bleeth pleaded guilty to possessing less than 25 grams of cocaine and...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is released from prison as part of a U.S. plea bargain. Protesters attack the Parliament Buildings in Nairobi, Kenya, leaving...
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CeCe McDonald (section Plea bargain (May 2012))
activist. She came to national attention in June 2012 for accepting a plea bargain of 41 months for second-degree manslaughter of a man she stabbed after...
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Nicanor Faeldon (section No plea bargain)
Cpt. Faeldon released a statement explaining why he in turn would not plea bargain to any of the offenses he was charged with in connection with the alleged...
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Oakwood mutiny (section Refusal to plea bargain)
part of the 53 junior officers who were honorably discharged after a plea bargain agreement after four years of detention. Arroyo on May 12, 2008, approved...
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NatWest Three (section Plea bargain)
Facts which was signed by all three defendants as part of their eventual plea bargain, the Three realized in early 2000 that, because of rises in the stock...
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Vicente Zambada Niebla (section Charges and plea deal)
more than a billion dollars' worth of cocaine and heroin. In a 2013 plea bargain deal which was made public by a U.S. District Court in 2014, Zambada...
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federal death penalty. In a bid to avoid this outcome, Wade accepted a plea bargain proposed by the prosecutors: he would be sentenced to 99 years in state...
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Sara Jane Olson (section Plea controversy)
she accepted a plea bargain and pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing explosives with intent to murder. As part of a plea bargain, the other charges...
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Plauché was initially charged with second-degree murder, but agreed to a plea bargain in which he pleaded no contest to manslaughter. He was sentenced to seven...
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minimum of 20 years in prison, but later that year, his office entered a plea bargain with Richards in which Richards pleaded guilty to one count of fourth-degree...
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second-degree murder and one charge of second-degree kidnapping as part of a plea bargain agreement worked out between prosecutors and defense attorneys. On August...
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Derek Chauvin (section Failed plea bargain)
motion in federal court in mid-November 2023 attempting to vacate his guilty plea. After the conclusion of the criminal and civil rights cases, Chauvin was...
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