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...

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...

1992. Homolka attracted worldwide media attention when a controversial plea bargain with Ontario prosecutors meant she was only convicted of manslaughter...

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...

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...

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...

the right to receive materially exculpatory evidence before making a plea bargain, which is how the vast majority of convictions are now obtained. The...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

lose the case, which triggered a breakthrough in plea negotiations. On 24 June 2024, a plea bargain was agreed, where Assange would plead guilty to one...

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...

plea bargain where Sauvé and Comeau would serve 14 years in prison. As for the rest of the Port Hope 8, Meinhardt was willing to make plea bargains where...

Reece Dinsdale, David Warner and Lochlyn Munro. Olson's controversial plea bargain is referred to in a panel discussion at a serial killers' convention...

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...

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...

witnesses. While the other parties involved could plea bargain, Schettino's request to strike a plea bargain himself was denied. Schettino's lawyers claimed...

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...

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...

Gonzalez, 08-CR-10223, case (the TJ Maxx case). According to reports this plea bargain would "resolve" issues with the New York case of U.S. v. Yastremskiy...

her attorney obtained her medical records from Louisiana, he secured a plea bargain to second-degree murder for Gypsy. She was so undernourished up to this...

Years Casey Scott McKay, Constitutional Law-the Plea-Bargaining Process-Mr. Counsel, Please Bargain Effectively for Your Client's Sixth Amendment Rights...

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...