plea

Today trials are not the norm, plea bargains are the norm.

That's where I found the reply for my plea for un-suspension.

There should be lots of AL users who can produce the exact email plea asking them to 1.

They make statements like this in order to foster plea discussions, which resulted in the 4-6 month offer she mentioned in the second statement.

The horrible treatment of just about anyone that enters the prison system is the primary driver of our plea-based justice system.

When they do occasionally notice something egregious and limply intervene, it's always with the same whiney "Honey..." followed by a feeble plea which the child ignores with no consequences.

"Ultimately any sentence imposed would have been up to the judge" and had the judge thrown the book at him Ortiz & Heymann would have washed their hands: "Oh well, maybe the judge shouldn't have given him 8 years rather than 3, but that's what he gets for not plea bargaining.

Even as plea negotiations went forward, the implication was "plead this out or you will get 35 years".She made statements that only a lawyer could love - rife with plausible deniability for any responsibility they have in this mess.

Maybe you're a nice guy with a skin tone that stirs feelings of compassion in the DA so he or she will agree that instead of going after you for rape you'll just plead guilty to a far lesser charge like "indecent liberties".Consider this at a higher level.

Such public stories help get other defendants to plead guilty in exchange for reduced sentences, hopefully in minimum security, "Club Fed" type facilities, before significant resources have to be spent on their prosecution.

One thing that strikes me as completely absurd is that the plea deal is for a substantially lower sentence and that if the plea deal is rejected the prosecution will go for a much higher punishment, sometimes as much as 10 times as much as offered in the deal.

It's no wonder that trials by jury are becoming so vanishingly rare that even the Supreme Court has written that "in todays criminal justice system, the negotiation of a plea bargain, rather than the unfolding of a trial, is almost always the critical point for a defendant.