Sentences with phrase «plea negotiations at»

I do not engage in plea negotiations at pretrial conferences.

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At such conferences, lawyers inform the judge of preparations for trial and any pending plea negotiations.

That brings us to the second post, a tour de force by Victoria Pynchon at Settle It Now Negotiation Blog, who issues an impassioned plea to the profession to restore the human art of counselling to the increasingly impersonal job of a lawyer:

Often times, though not every time, our experienced injury lawyer, Jamie Butler, is able to secure a plea negotiation for a substitutional charge to be added so that you plead guilty to a Motor Vehicle Act offence (such as «undue care and attention» or «failing to remain at the scene» or being charged as an «owner» rather than a «driver» to a Motor Vehicle Act charge) instead of a criminal hit and run charge.

He has many years of expertise defending all types of criminal charges including DUI and is effective at handling plea negotiations, advanced motion practice, bail hearings, criminal trials, appeals, vacating warrants, post-conviction motions (including habeas corpus and other writs and petitions), regulatory investigations, post-conviction licensing hearings, applying for certificates of relief from civil disability and for good conduct, commutation or expungement proceedings, and mitigating other consequences resulting from a criminal conviction...