A plea bargain is an agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant. Many cases in the United States end in plea bargains, and there are both benefits and downsides to plea bargaining for both ...

The American Bar Association’s 2023 Plea Bargain Task Force Report communicates there are many benefits of plea bargaining in the criminal justice system, including the preservation of resources ...

As the Supreme Court rightly noted in 2012, “Plea bargaining … is not some adjunct to the criminal system. It is the criminal system.” To be clear, plea bargaining provides many benefits.

My neighbor was apprehended while selling "shabu" on the street fronting our house. I heard that the investigator mentioned to one member of his family that the culprit may avail of plea bargaining in ...

Plea bargaining is part of the Judiciary’s broader efforts to reduce case backlogs and promote timely access to justice ...

Although the court of appeals concluded Davis could not show prejudice absent an allegation that the government had offered him a plea deal, Davis contends it was enough to show that his similarly ...

Former USC football player Abdul-Malik McClain has agreed to a plea bargain for his role in allegedly orchestrating a scheme from July 2020 to September 2020 that sought to claim more than $1 ...

WASHINGTON—A federal appeals court on Friday quashed plea bargains that would spare three alleged Sept. 11, 2001, ...

The introduction of plea bargains is backed by the Criminal and Other Offences (Procedure) (Amendment) Act, 2022 (Act 1079). Plea bargaining is a process in criminal justice where an accused person ...