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In U.S. criminal law, a proffer agreement, proffer letter, proffer, or "Queen for a Day" letter is a written agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant or prospective witness that allows the defendant or witness to give the prosecutor information about an alleged crime, while limiting the prosecutor's ability to use that information against him or her.
A proffer is an offer made prior to any formal negotiations. In a trial, to proffer (sometimes profer ) is to offer evidence in support of an argument (for example, as used in U.S. law [ 1 ] ), or elements of an affirmative defense or offense.
"Given the ongoing speculation surrounding the proffer agreements, and in the interest of transparency, the office is releasing the agreements," the office said in a statement, which also ...
Kastigar v. United States, 406 U.S. 441 (1972), was a United States Supreme Court decision that ruled on the issue of whether the government's grant of immunity from prosecution can compel a witness to testify over an assertion of the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
On Tuesday, the prosecutor’s office issued a statement about the two school witnesses, saying their lawyers had requested proffer agreements on behalf of their clients, and that “a proffer ...
The proffer described a meeting at a safe house inside Iran, at which Yousef and Merchant debated the advantages of indoor or outdoor attempts on a US politician’s life.
In United States law, an Alford plea, also called a Kennedy plea in West Virginia, [1] an Alford guilty plea, [2] [3] [4] and the Alford doctrine, [5] [6] [7] is a guilty plea in criminal court, [8] [9] [10] whereby a defendant in a criminal case does not admit to the criminal act and asserts innocence, but accepts imposition of a sentence.
A leading question is a question that suggests a particular answer and contains information the examiner is looking to have confirmed. [1] The use of leading questions in court to elicit testimony is restricted in order to reduce the ability of the examiner to direct or influence the evidence presented.