For the majority of defendants, then, the plea bargaining process is the justice system.
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Plea bargaining is woven into the fabric of our criminal justice system.
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The new length of corporate-fraud sentences may also be influencing in troubling ways one of the most controversial elements of America's justice system: plea bargaining.
MSPs will also look at staffing levels, fiscal fines and plea bargaining - as well as relations between the Crown Office, the Scottish Executive and the police.
Plea bargaining is common in the US, with defendants often able to secure a more lenient sentence if they admit an offence and co-operate with prosecutors, rather than contest the charges in a trial.
And thanks to the legal fiction that plea bargaining is a voluntary negotiation between the prosecutor and defendant, our justice system effectively gives people dramatically longer sentences for exercising the right to have a trial at all.
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That is what plea bargaining is.
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Under this amendment, victims of a violent crime would have to be notified of judicial proceedings, could attend all public proceedings and would be allowed to be heard at judicial hearings on such critical issues as bail, plea bargaining and sentencing.
The new government also wants approval of a law to protect witnesses and to encourage plea-bargaining.
This followed a complex legal process that included the Supreme Court, lower courts and plea-bargaining.
FATF's fans admit that some plea-bargaining goes on, but insist that it does not let countries off lightly.
NGO, the government missed an opportunity to use plea-bargaining to reveal the truth.
While in jail awaiting trial, he has reportedly engaged in plea-bargaining by confessing to participating in a Libyan plot to murder the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
Some lawyers worry that, in their current pursuit of corporate big fish, prosecutors might be tempted to abuse the plea-bargaining process to secure damaging false testimony from smaller fry.
The government has virtually unlimited resources, immense experience in playing to an attentive (and often subservient) media, the ability to intimidate witnesses into testifying, and a habit of plea-bargaining its way to victory.
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Silent treatment A year ago we argued that the U.S. federal government had overreacted when it sentenced the computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, 36, to five years in jail--more time than most plea-bargaining killers serve (" Kevin Mitnick, the hackers' first martyr").
Underlying the revolving door is a pernicious underbelly of overzealous and often unfair prosecutions, juked conviction stats, and a culture of plea-bargaining that is spiraling out of control, all in order to bring down some of the biggies in the business world.
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