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Plea bargaining is a significant part of the criminal justice system in the United States; the vast majority (roughly 90%) [29] of criminal cases in the United States are settled by plea bargain rather than by a jury trial. [30] Plea bargains are subject to the approval of the court, and different states and jurisdictions have different rules.
For example, if a prosecutor has only a 25% chance of winning his case and sending the defendant away to prison for 10 years, he may make a plea agreement for a one-year sentence; but if plea bargaining is unavailable, he may drop the case completely. [30] Plea bargaining may allow prosecutors to allocate their resources more efficiently, such ...
Lafler v. Cooper, 566 U.S. 156 (2012), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court clarified the Sixth Amendment standard for reversing convictions due to ineffective assistance of counsel during plea bargaining. The Court ruled that when a lawyer's ineffective assistance leads to the rejection of a plea agreement, a defendant is ...
The following is an incomplete list of notable individuals that have entered an Alford plea.An Alford plea (also referred to as Alford guilty plea [1] [2] [3] and Alford doctrine) [4] [5] [6] in the law of the United States is a guilty plea in criminal court, [7] [8] [9] where the defendant does not admit the act and asserts innocence.
A nolo contendere plea has the same immediate effects as a plea of guilty, but may have different residual effects or consequences in future actions. For instance, a conviction arising from a nolo contendere plea is subject to any and all penalties, fines, and forfeitures of a conviction from a guilty plea in the same case, and can be considered as an aggravating factor in future criminal actions.
The plaintiff, Dr. Ira Gore, bought a new BMW, and later discovered that the vehicle had been repainted before he bought it. Defendant BMW of North America revealed that their policy was to sell damaged cars as new if the damage could be fixed for less than 3% of the cost of the car. Dr. Gore sued, and an Alabama jury awarded $4,000 in compensatory damages (lost value of the car) and $4 ...
Indiana-based Envigo agreed to pay $22 million in fines - $11 million of which represented the largest-ever Justice Department fine in an animal welfare case - plus $13.5 million more to support ...
Additional charges were filed in District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on February 21, 2018; these charges were withdrawn on February 27, 2018, without prejudice, as agreed to in his plea bargain with Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III. [4] On December 17, 2019, Gates was sentenced to 45 days' jail and three years of probation. [5]