Hitherto, the defense has focused its argument on casting doubt upon the testimony provided by witnesses with plea-bargain deals.
The federal statute also provided for stiffer sentences than wire fraud he said, providing a heavy cudgel in plea-bargain negotiations.
After a plea-bargain, the men were sentenced last month to just 16 months in jail, avoiding a potential life sentence.
The purpose of this was crude and simple: Defendants, unable to shoulder the huge expense of an effective defense, would be forced to plea-bargain.
While aiding the law was part of his plea-bargain, testifying won't get him softer terms--only the proverbial "time off for good behavior" can do that.
The security package, approved by the Chamber of Deputies on July 15th, now contains what some opposition politicians say is a fifth ad personam measure, entitling defendants to plea-bargain in mid-trial.
If he had, he would have presumably studded his conversations with rude jokes about Kenneth Starr and how simple it had been to hoodwink the independent counsel's office on a plea-bargain agreement.
Moreover, such is DNA's reputation that, when faced with claims that the molecule puts a defendant in a place where a crime has been committed, that defendant will often agree to a plea-bargain he might otherwise not have accepted.
Hours earlier, Roth had accepted a plea bargain in the fake-drowning case that included a 90-day jail sentence.
Jakubec was recently sentenced to 30 years in prison for multiple armed bank robberies in a plea bargain in which the bomb-making charges were dropped.
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On Wednesday, District Attorney Sherry Caloia said Bebb-Jones had made a plea bargain, admitting murder in the second degree in exchange for a sentence of no more than 20 years.
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Likewise, Mr Fastow, the government's star witness, accepted a ten-year jail sentence under a plea bargain.
Anders Hoegstroem, a former neo-Nazi leader, admitted theft under a plea bargain last month and will be moved to Sweden to serve his sentence.
In a recent interview with Newsweek, Mr Rajaratnam said that FBI agents offered him a plea bargain just five years' jail-time in exchange for wearing a wire and taping his conversations with Mr Gupta.
She explained that Bebb-Jones had pleaded guilty to second degree murder using a plea bargain.
One possibility is the prosecution could drop the three felony charges in a plea bargain in which the defence accepts the four lesser misdemeanour charges - and a maximum one year in jail.
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This week, as Enron's former finance chief, Andrew Fastow, and his wife, Lea, struck a plea bargain with prosecutors that will see Mr Fastow get a ten-year sentence, there were stirrings of sympathy for the couple.
Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) went even further, calling any thought of a "plea bargain" unconstitutional.
Her lawyer, Galen Clark (paid-up member of the Kentucky Bar) said the prosecutor tried to negotiate a plea bargain but Tarpinian refused.
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As part of a plea bargain, Trie agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department's ongoing campaign fund-raising investigation and has helped Burton's committee with its inquiry.
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