Sentences with phrase «plead in criminal trials»

The issue of fitness to plead in criminal trials raises interesting, indeed fundamental philosophical, questions concerning justice.

Not exact matches

A criminal jury trial is practically unheard of for offences under the Competition Act, because the accused normally plead out so the process is faster, especially in cases like this one, where there is no real case law available under the act, Khoury notes.

The American criminal justice system is far from being sufficiently enlightened, starting by too many presumed - innocent people caged without bond pending sentencing, moving to Virginia's crabbed criminal discovery system, continuing to Virginia's system that allows prosecutors to scare defendants to plead guilty by their refusal to waive a jury that in many instances and locations can mean more racist jurors than judges on top of the jurors often being more wild cards than judges for sentencing, continuing to the many judges who choose judicial efficiency over a fair trial, continuing to the brutal capital punishment system, cntinuing to excessive mandatory minimum and guideline sentencing, and continuing to the slew of innocent convicted people (many of whom plead gulilty rather than risking a worse fate), and continuing to frequently excessive sentences and excessive probation violation sentences.

The same reasoning applies to certain aspects of more complex cases; for instance, the accused in a criminal trial may plead not by showing up in court but by clicking options on a website.

The line of authorities on the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE 1984), s 74 (admissibility of guilty plea of co-accused) as distilled in the judgment of Lord Justice Staughton in R v Kempster, [1989] 1 WLR 1125, [1990] 90 Cr App R 14 (indicating that s 74 should be applied sparingly, because the evidence that a now absent co-accused has pleaded guilty may carry enormous weight in the minds of the jury, but it is nevertheless evidence which can not properly be tested in the trial of the remaining defendant) remains relevant despite the passing of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (CJA 2003).

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