Plea bargaining can present a dilemma to defense attorneys, in that they must choose between vigorously seeking a good deal for their present client, or maintaining a good relationship with the prosecutor for the sake of helping future clients.

Plea bargaining has been defended as a voluntary exchange that leaves both parties better off, in that defendants have many procedural and substantive rights, but by pleading guilty, defendants sell these rights to the prosecutor, receiving concessions that they esteem more highly than the rights surrendered.

Plea bargaining is criticized, particularly outside the United States, on the grounds that its close relationship with rewards, threats and coercion potentially endangers the correct legal outcome.

Plea bargaining is a significant part of the criminal justice system in the United States ; the vast majority ( roughly 90 %) of criminal cases in the United States are settled by plea bargain rather than by a jury trial.

Plea bargaining was introduced in India by Criminal Law ( Amendment ) Act, 2005, which amended the Code of Criminal Procedure and introduced a new chapter XXI ( A ) in the code, enforceable from January 11, 2006, which affects cases in which the maximum punishment is imprisonment for 7 years ; however, offenses affecting the socio-economic condition of the country and offenses committed against a woman or a child below 14 are excluded.

Plea bargaining is extremely difficult in jurisdictions based on the widespread legal system known as civil law.

Plea bargaining is permitted for the crimes punishable by no more than four years of imprisonment.

Plea bargaining ( Georgian: საპროცესო შეთანხმება, literally " plea agreement ") was introduced in Georgia in 2004.

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* Plea bargaining comes into effect — India Law: A new chapter — Chapter XXI A — on ‘ plea bargaining ’ has been inserted in the Criminal Procedure Code ( 1973 )

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Plea bargains are so common in the Superior Courts of California ( the general trial courts ) that the Judicial Council of California has published an optional seven-page form ( containing all mandatory advisements required by federal and state law ) to help prosecutors and defense attorneys reduce such bargains into written plea agreements.

Rock and metal artists such as A Plea For Purging, Paradise Lost, Born of Osiris, Devin Townsend, Fear Factory, Steve Vai, Scribe, Dream Theater, Animals as Leaders, Bleeding Oath, Trivium, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Slayer, Megadeth ,( Megadeth's lead guitarist Chris Broderick uses 7 string guitars, but a 7 string isn't required in Megadeth.

In two years, the band had performed 185 shows and recorded a total of 32 songs ( 28 released officially, 4 on the bootlegged EP Plea for Peace ), as well as songs which were recorded only as demos, such as " Hedgecore " ( about a favorite pastime of the band which involved artfully jumping into manicured bushes ), " Hangin ' Out ", " Sarcastic " and " Left Behind ".

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* Catherine Cathiard, " Plea for an underestimated corporate form: the Societas Europaea ( SE )", OPTION FINANCE, 17 janvier 2011 ( available in French ).

" Madness in Method Plus a Plea for Projective Inversion in Myth ".

" In his 1995 paper A Plea for Lean Software he attributes it to Martin Reiser.

Edmund Gosse, influenced by Théodore de Banville, was the first English writer to praise the villanelle and bring it into fashion with his 1877 essay " A Plea for Certain Exotic Forms of Verse ".

Gladstone wrote to Herbert Spencer, who contributed the introduction to a collection of anti-socialist essays ( A Plea for Liberty, 1891 ), that " I ask to make reserves, and of one passage, which will be easily guessed, I am unable even to perceive the relevancy.

Thoreau was disgusted by this, and he composed a speech — A Plea for Captain John Brown — which was uncompromising in its defense of Brown and his actions.

* A Plea for Captain John Brown ( 1859 )

* Cato Policy Report-A Plea for ( Mild ) Deflation

The 1896 supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary cites Punch magazine which wrote the term was coined in Britain in 1895 to describe a Sunday meal for " Saturday-night carousers " in the writer Guy Beringer's article " Brunch: A Plea " in Hunter's Weekly

* My Plea for the Old Sword

Edenton achieved international notoriety for the Little Rascals child-abuse case, the subject of journalist Ofra Bikel's award-winning trilogy of documentaries: Innocence Lost ( 1991 ), Innocence Lost: The Verdict ( 1993 ), and Innocence Lost: The Plea ( 1997 ).

Because of MTSU's large music program, the city has fostered a number of bands and songwriters, including: The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, A Plea for Purging, Self, Fluid Ounces, The Katies, Count Bass D, Destroy Destroy Destroy, The Features and PRo.

* A Plea for the Constitution of the United States of America, Wounded in the House of its Guardians

The study of account giving as a sociological act was articulated in a 1968 article on " Accounts " by Marvin Scott and Stanford Lyman and Stephen Soroka, although it can be traced as well to J. L. Austin's 1956 essay " A Plea for Excuses ," in which he used excuse-making as an example of speech acts.

Mrs Henry Reed published A Plea for Women ( 1843 ).

The band appeared on various compilation albums, notably Plea for Peace Vol.

Samuel Bradshaw, in his Tract for the Times, Being a Plea for the Jews calls for Parliament to allot 4 million pounds for the Restoration of Israel, with another 1 million to be collected by the Church.

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* Issue: Effect of Alford Plea of Guilty, Issues In NY Criminal Law, Volume 4, Issue 11.

Plea bargain as a system does not exist in an inquisitorial system.

Plea Bargaining can also be argued to be a method used to augment the revenue of a municipality.

Plea bargains are subject to the approval of the court, and different States and jurisdictions have different rules.

Plea bargain as a formal legal provision was introduced in Pakistan by the National Accountability Ordinance 1999, an anti-corruption law.

Plea agreement without the approval of the court doesn ’ t have the legal effect.

Plea agreements have made a limited appearance in Germany.

* Puritan pamphleteer Dr. Alexander Leighton publishes Zion's Plea Against Prelacy: An Appeal to Parliament, an attack on Anglican bishops, in London.

* Plea agreement and statement, U. S. vs. Andrew Fastow ( January 14, 2004 )