Sentences with phrase «consequences of a plea bargain»

These lawyers need to remember that unlike their clients, they themselves have never had to live with the consequences of a plea bargain.

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Figuring out the effects of the latest abortion ruling is child's play compared with unpacking the consequences of decisions like Wardlow and Kyllo on policing or the effects of cases like Miller - El and Booker on criminal trials and plea bargains.

On the one hand, we operate in a system where nearly all cases get resolved by plea bargaining and sentencing determinations can therefore so easily undermine, as a pragmatic matter, the agreed - upon definitions of offences and their attendant consequences.

Because New Jersey prohibits plea bargaining, you also have fewer opportunities to reduce or eliminate the consequences of a conviction.

Information on the mental health court — including eligibility criteria, plea bargaining and sentencing procedure, sentencing policies, program length, graduation rates, likelihood of early discharge, and consequences of unsuccessful termination — derive from interviews with key mental health court professionals, five years of collected sentencing and dispositional data, and court materials.

Fourth, plea bargaining would not significantly diminish the consequences of the Court's constitutional holding for the operation of the Guidelines, but would make matters worse, leading to sentences that gave greater weight not to real conduct, but rather to counsel's skill, the prosecutor's policies, the caseload, and other factors that vary from place to place, defendant to defendant, and crime to crime.