This conviction reaffirms the ICPC’s strategic use of plea bargaining and non-custodial sentencing in appropriate cases, especially where offenders demonstrate remorse, make restitution, and ...

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%, plea ...

Writing in 2004, Stephanos Bibas, today a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, argued that the accepted narrative about the role of plea bargaining in the criminal justice ...

Examples provided in the policy include "immigration impacts," loss of employment, public benefits, housing, or student financial aid. RELATED: Moriarty's new plea deal policies also include ...

The sobering statistics are familiar by now. While the United States contains less than 5 percent of the global population, it incarcerates nearly a quarter of the world’s prisoners. With almost two ...

Ellis, 547 F.2d 863, 864 (5th Cir. 1977) ("The [district] court [has] the prerogative to make and strictly enforce a deadline on plea bargaining.")). The families respectfully request an Ellis ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County Prosecutor Lynn Maro wanted her audience Thursday to know things have been done differently over the last 100 days than they were done during the 27 years before that.

ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul, citing a surge of dismissals in criminal cases involving domestic violence, continued her push Monday for the Legislature to amend the pretrial discovery rules that ...

In fact, Trump’s actions along these lines are simply shifting into high gear trends in the legal system which have been building up for decades, at least since the 1980s if not before.

A breakdown of the arguments given in favour of keeping (or reintroducing) the death penalty. First a reminder of the basic argument behind retribution and punishment: all guilty people deserve to ...

Criminal cases seldom go to trial. In fact, studies suggest that approximately 90-95% of criminal cases are resolved through plea deals before reaching a courtroom.