Sentences with phrase «number of plea bargains»

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Later in the movie, we're informed that the felony plea - bargain rate in the United States is 95 percent — predicated on the Justice Department awarding funds to jurisdictions based on number of convictions.

Some people claim that this multiplicity of charges is one of the reasons for the delays in the criminal courts, others that the multiplicity gives the Crown something to bargain with about pleas, others that the police need to ensure that they have laid charges that the facts will support as a matter of law, and — depending on how long they have between investigation and charging — they lay a number of charges to ensure that the offence is covered somehow.

90 % of the United States criminal cases (and a good number of civil cases, which are settled privately before discovery phase) are plea bargained to lesser sentences.