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(criminal law) a negotiation in which the defendant agrees to enter a plea of guilty to a lesser charge and the prosecutor agrees to drop a more serious charge
plea bargaining helps to stop the courts becoming congested
his admission was part of a plea bargain with the prosecutor
How To Use plea bargain In A Sentence
- NIAGARA FALLS -- A Niagara Falls English teacher has agreed to resign and surrender his teaching certification as part of a plea bargain to charges that he had an improper relationship with a 16-year-old female student. The Buffalo News: Home
- A source close to the defense team said the no contest plea was a key element in plea bargain negotiations.
- The system in Britain is not as dominated by plea bargaining, but it is certainly present.
- The general sentiment among lawyers is that the Commission is likely to favour plea bargaining if sufficient safeguards can be built in.
- Arrested for rape, he had agreed to a plea bargain in which he admitted unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old.
- I worry about the plea bargain arrangements which made it possible for Mark Thatcher to get away with a R3 million fine, which will probably be paid by the baroness or his Texas in-laws.
- Two recent examples illustrate the disparity between those who accept a plea bargain and those who proceed to trial.
- After that it focuses on the analysis of procedural operative mechanism of plea bargaining.
- Her legal team were expected to agree to a plea bargain but the judge insisted that any such deal would result in a custodial sentence. Times, Sunday Times
- Mark was a State employee with no criminal history before he was indicted for a crime that he did not commit and now his family are finacially ruined and he has been bludgeoned into signing a plea bargain by the legal vampires.
