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...
67 KB (8,315 words) - 08:06, 14 September 2024
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...
34 KB (4,055 words) - 22:21, 5 September 2024
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...
70 KB (7,424 words) - 10:28, 16 September 2024
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...
13 KB (1,521 words) - 17:11, 10 September 2024
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...
25 KB (3,192 words) - 02:32, 27 September 2024
be convicted if the court accepts the plea. The court will then determine and impose a sentence. Plea bargaining involves discussions between the prosecutor...
15 KB (2,025 words) - 08:32, 29 August 2024
the right to receive materially exculpatory evidence before making a plea bargain, which is how the vast majority of convictions are now obtained. The...
13 KB (1,377 words) - 20:50, 21 July 2024
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...
8 KB (924 words) - 20:12, 24 September 2024
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...
70 KB (6,756 words) - 01:19, 17 September 2024
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...
14 KB (1,491 words) - 21:09, 8 September 2024
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...
39 KB (3,971 words) - 14:22, 27 September 2024
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...
18 KB (1,929 words) - 18:55, 25 September 2024
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...
17 KB (1,636 words) - 16:35, 17 September 2024
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...
20 KB (1,961 words) - 21:39, 24 September 2024
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...
107 KB (9,158 words) - 19:48, 24 September 2024
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...
19 KB (2,059 words) - 18:21, 22 September 2024
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...
79 KB (10,156 words) - 17:17, 25 September 2024
Julian Assange (section Plea bargain and release)
would lose the case, triggering a breakthrough in plea negotiations. On 24 June 2024, a plea bargain was agreed, where Assange would plead guilty to one...
313 KB (29,254 words) - 18:16, 28 September 2024
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...
42 KB (4,354 words) - 23:40, 24 September 2024
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...
56 KB (7,267 words) - 07:21, 29 August 2024
witnesses. While the other parties involved could plea bargain, Schettino's request to strike a plea bargain himself was denied. Schettino's lawyers claimed...
40 KB (3,281 words) - 13:56, 23 September 2024
Albert Gonzalez (section Plea bargain)
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...
31 KB (3,003 words) - 18:42, 8 September 2024
Clifford Olson (section Arrest and plea bargain)
Reece Dinsdale, David Warner and Lochlyn Munro. Olson's controversial plea bargain is referred to in a panel discussion at a serial killers' convention...
20 KB (1,799 words) - 03:31, 3 September 2024
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...
106 KB (10,330 words) - 20:56, 12 September 2024
Port Hope 8 case (section Failed plea bargain talks)
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...
93 KB (15,018 words) - 15:35, 16 September 2024
Obadyah Ben-Yisrayl (born Christopher Dwayne Peterson January 20, 1969) is an American serial killer found guilty of committing four murders and acquitted...
21 KB (2,076 words) - 23:38, 10 September 2024
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...
9 KB (673 words) - 11:11, 16 September 2024
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...
43 KB (4,503 words) - 16:02, 6 September 2024
assassination, and Chagra received a ten-year sentence as part of a plea bargain to testify for the prosecution but not against his brother. In the absence...
20 KB (2,016 words) - 16:28, 18 September 2024
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...
114 KB (9,444 words) - 07:37, 7 September 2024