Plea bargaining. Can’t live with it; can’t live without it.

Our criminal justice system simply does not have the resources to hold a trial for every case, so the great majority of criminal cases are resolved through a negotiation process known as “plea ...

Half a century after approving coercive plea bargaining, the Supreme Court is beginning to recognize its costs.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Georgetown law professor Marc Morje Howard talked about the plea bargaining process in the United States and some of the problems with accepting a ...

Behind the constitutional guarantee of trial by jury lies a shadowy reality of American criminal justice: the vast majority of federal criminal cases never reach a courtroom. Instead, they end in plea ...

The High Court has given the new legal team of the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, up to August 27 to conclude plea bargain negotiations with the ...

Although the concept of the plea bargain option has become popular in Nigeria in recent years, a report by Tope Adebayo LP, a leading law firm based in Lagos State, has stated that plea bargain is not ...

Deputy Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Dr Justice Srem-Sai, has said that no plea agreement has been reached in the ongoing criminal case involving New Patriotic Party (NPP) Ashanti Regional ...

On July 31, a letter from the Department of Defense’s Office of the Chief Prosecutor for Military Commissions conveyed a disheartening message: The U.S. government had reached a plea bargain with ...

Chairman Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, appears to be in more legal trouble, as he has ...