Sentences with phrase «on plea bargaining for»

Why not place a moratorium on plea bargaining for a decade or so.

After a pretty heated debate, we settled on a plea bargain for the rain to return in August when we're a little more desperate for clouds again.

Not exact matches

Tokyo, May 4 (Jiji Press)-- Public prosecutors and private companies in Japan are making preparations for the introduction on June 1 of a plea - bargaining system in the country that may drastically change the way investigations, trials and lawyer activities are conducted.

Reports suggest that US authorities are offering Bradley Manning, the soldier allegedly responsible for passing on confidential information to Mr Assange, a plea bargain if he names the Australian as a fellow conspirator.

Their views on such matters as conviction rates and plea bargains reveal that Mr. Laquidara, who also has the Working Families Party and Green Party lines, has the right sensibility: He recognizes the need for aggressive prosecution of repeat offenders and those accused of violent crimes, but he also sees the need to exercise discretion in certain other cases, balancing justice with the office's limited resources and the need to prevent case backlogs.

Counsel for the EFCC, Mr. Nnaemeka Omenwa, told the court that as the settlement terms proposed by the defendants did not comply with the provisions of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act on plea bargain, the anti-graft agency was opting for a full trial.

At the resumed proceedings on Thursday, however, Omenwa, who appeared for the EFCC, told the court that he was instructed to reject the settlement terms proposed by the defendants because they did not comply with the provisions of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act on plea bargain.

He has suffered significant damage to his career and life already... Would not a plea bargain be more likely — with an agreed slap on the wrist, and some community service... gasp: probably offering to lecture for free on the dangers of AGW...

Depending on the circumstances, we may also seek to have the charges reduced or arrange for a plea bargain.

More concerning for some lawmakers, including state Sen. Karen Tallian, D - Ogden Dunes, is Pence reversing course on his past actions to eliminate mandatory minimums by now reducing the ability of judges to issue the appropriate sentence for each criminal and giving prosecutors the upper hand in plea bargaining with an accused.

Depending on the circumstances, he may also seek to have the charges reduced or arrange for a plea bargain.

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.

That means for the data to be valuable, the database would have to include information on what kind of sentences a judge accepts from a plea bargain, as well as the sentences imposed after trial.

Depending on your point of view, you might consider the difference between a plea bargain and the sentence delivered after a successful prosecution as the penalty for this kind of «perjury».

Relevant conduct allows defendants to be sentenced for what they actually did and not based on some watered down charge that resulted because of a plea bargain.

In its over 300 ongoing matters, the PNF is working closely on trying to address cases at the preliminary inquiry phase of criminal investigations before an investigating magistrate is appointed, namely, the instruction phase, which limits the leeway for plea bargaining and considerably extends the length of procedures.

The sentencing judge rejected the JSR on the basis it was not the product of a «true plea bargain» — stating «the quid pro quo is lacking... as [the accused] was always intending to plead guilty» and, in any event, the proposed sentence was not «appropriate for these crimes» (see para. 10).

In Lafler, the Sixth Circuit held that Cooper's attorney was ineffective for convincing Cooper to reject a favorable plea bargain based on an erroneous understanding of the law.

Crimes that would be punished with monetary sanctions or imprisonment for a period not longer — based on the particulars of the case and a one - third reduction — than five years (insider trading and market manipulation would generally be covered) can be settled during the investigations through a plea bargain.

The trick is that the orders take effect unless someone appeals them, and since deals like this are usually a result of a plea bargain which waives rights to an appeal, and even if the result is simply imposed by the judge, one has to consider if taking the case up on appeal, having the sentence reversed, and then having it remanded to the same judge for resentencing would be worse from the perspective of the defendant, given the broad authority of a sentencing judge in a minor case like this one, than simply accepting the illegal sentence.

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Residents of another state who received a citation in Nevada - Contact the court of jurisdiction as listed on the citation for possible plea bargain arrangements.

Nevada residents who received a citation in another state - Contact the court of jurisdiction as listed on the citation for possible plea bargain arrangements.

Depending on the specific facts of your case, your attorney should be able to map out an option which would be most advantageous for you, i.e., talk with the prosecutor about possibly dropping the charges against you, work out a plea bargain agreement, or proceed with a jury trial.