Justice Ijelu of the Lagos High Court Criminal Division convicted ... the ICPC’s strategic use of plea bargaining and non-custodial sentencing in appropriate cases, especially where offenders ...

Notably, in the United States, about 90% of criminal cases are disposed of on the basis of plea bargaining. In the context of Bangladesh, where the conviction rate on average is only 8-10% ...

Today, it would be nearly impossible to overstate the extent to which justice for the criminal ... The use of plea bargaining to escape the challenges of prosecuting and trying cases within ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Less than a week into a new policy at the Hennepin County Attorney's Office where racial identity is taken into consideration for plea deals, the US Department of Justice announced ...

But the Supreme Court, she asserts, has weakened many of the constitutional protections related to criminal punishment. The six cases she explores ... Hayes (1978), as normalizing plea bargaining. The ...

in death cases, their families) in the plea bargaining process. All too often, the parties in criminal cases drag out negotiations, with little regard for the consequences of the delays on the ...

“I think I took a different approach on serving clients,” she said of her first 100 days after working 35 years as a private practice attorney specializing in criminal ... cases we are plea ...

Kathy Hochul, citing a surge of dismissals in criminal cases involving ... The governor’s office cited examples of multiple domestic violence cases in which charges were dismissed.

No-tort arbitration in civil cases, forced plea bargaining in criminal cases — these trends have been undermining democratic processes in the court system for at least the last four decades ...

But there are many examples of persons ... for capital punishment as a whole. Plea bargaining is used in most countries. It's the process through which a criminal gets a reduced sentence in ...

Criminal cases seldom ... they enter a plea of guilty, not guilty, or no contest. This initial stage is crucial because it sets the tone for subsequent proceedings. Plea bargaining occurs when ...