PLEA BARGAINS Expository Essay Mehrin Reid PLEA BARGAINS Plea-bargaining can mean many things to many people‚ in and out of the courtroom. Let us first start by defining plea bargain. Plea bargain is defined an agreement in which the defendant enters a guilty plea in exchange for a reduced sentence. This is the technical meaning‚ but as I stated before‚ the word plea bargain can mean very different things to very different people. To the accused‚ the word plea bargain means a freedom
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Plea bargain Court Systems/ Plea bargain With all the crimes that are going on today you have to wonder why there are not more jails filled up. Well some of the reasons is due to either the lack of evidence or the fact that they can find anything to change the person with‚ then there are plea bargains‚ what are plea bargains well let’s take a closer look. There really is not a true definition of plea bargain but According to Siegel‚ Schmalleger‚ and Worrall (2011)‚ plea bargain is “the
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Plea bargaining is a process of negotiation that usually involves the defendant‚ the prosecutor‚ and the defense counsel and is founded on the mutual interests of all involved. Plea bargaining circumvents the trial process and dramatically reduces the time required for the resolution a criminal case. Bargained pleas are very common. Some surveys have found that 90% of all criminal cases prepared for trial are eventually resolved through a negotiated plea. In a study of 37
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Takiyah Nicholson April 24‚ 2013 Plea Bargaining United States‚ Petitioner VS Gary Mazzanato (93-1340)‚ 513 U.S. 196 (1995) Brief: Respondent was arrested and charged with possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute‚ in violation of 84 Stat. 1260. On October 17‚ 1991‚ respondent and his attorney asked to meet with the prosecutor to discuss the possibility of cooperating with the Government. At the beginning of the meeting‚ the prosecutor informed respondent that
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Defense of Plea Bargaining article‚ “a plea bargain is a contract with the state. The defense agrees to plead guilty to a lesser crime and receive a lesser sentence‚ rather than go to trial on a more severe charge where he faces the possibility of a harsher sentence.” We are also told in The New York Times Article; Federal Law on Sentencing is Unjust‚ Judge Rules that “about 97 percent of federal criminal convictions nationwide were the result of plea bargains.” In a Frontline Program- The Plea we watched
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PLEA BARGAINING The former Chairman‚ Local Government Election Petition Tribunal in Oyo State‚ Justice Waheed Olaifa (rtd)‚ has described plea-bargaining as a bad compromise which is eroding the integrity of the judiciary and deepening the culture of corruption in the country. Olaifa who spoke with journalists shortly after he bowed out of the bench‚ noted that plea-bargaining was a strange element in the Nigerian legal system. He said: “Plea bargaining is not in our own law. Instead of allowing
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Justice System the sixth amendment- the right to a trial by a jury of one’s peers. However‚ to the surprise of this audience‚ over 95 percent of all cases resulting in criminal convictions‚ in this country‚ never reach the ears of a jury‚ but instead are settled by plea bargain agreements. Plea bargains are legally binding agreements‚ in which the defendant exchanges guilt for a lighter sentence or reduced charge (Pollock‚ 2019‚ p.262). In the PBS documentary‚ The Plea‚ the plea bargain process
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DISADVANTAGES OF PLEA BARGAINING Plea bargaining is a very familiar process in our criminal justice system. Usually‚ the defense is allowed to bargain with a prosecutor to have a defendant plead guilty to a criminal accusation with the hope of getting a lighter punishment. The problem with this immediate approach is that dangerous offenders are pleading guilty to small misbehavior charges and they are keeping a cleaner record than they should have and getting reduced sentence. Plea bargaining is needed
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Disadvantages of Plea Bargaining Cherese Murphy CJA/224 May 17‚ 2012 Maxine Craig Advantages and Disadvantages of Plea Bargaining The history of plea bargaining go back to the 19th century; by the second half of the 19th century plea bargaining was somewhat a common practice. (Siegel‚ Schmalleger‚ Worrall 2011‚ 320) However‚ plea bargaining became more common in the early and mid-1900’s. From 1916 to 1921 the Georgia Department of Public Welfare advised that guilty plea rates increase 70
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When Kaffee says his defendants’ plea not guilty‚ this throws off the prosecutor’s initial plea bargain he had agreed on with Kaffee. This again relates to class because we discussed how lawyers sometimes meet to agree on a plea bargain in casual settings before they meet in court. This also relates to how we learned the roles of a prosecutor in class for giving a plea bargain. Later in the movie‚ the case is in a district court. This had a lot of components of what we learned in class including
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