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 abuses, such as seeking testimony in exchange for leniency.

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.

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 ".

Austin visited Harvard and Berkeley in the mid-fifties, in 1955 delivering the William James Lectures at Harvard that would become How to Do Things With Words, and offering a seminar on excuses whose material would find its way into " A Plea for Excuses ".

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 ".

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

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.

* Jekyll's Plea — Henry Jekyll, Mr. Simon Stride, Sir Danvers Carew and The Board of Governors

* Jekyll's Plea / Board Of Governors — Henry Jekyll, Mr. Simon Stride, Sir Danvers Carew and The Board of Governors

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

* " Of Law and Human Action: A Jurisprudential Plea for a World Order Perspective in International Legal Studies ", in: Falk, Kratochwil, Mendlovitz ( eds.

* Steven B. Walmsley, Best Mode: A Plea to Repair or Sacrifice This Broken Requirement of United States Patent Law, 9 Mich. Telecomm.

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

He wrote a poem entitled Mendel's Law: A Plea for a Better Race of Men, which he read in public on a number of occasions.

His publications included The Insanity Defense ( 1967 ); The Myth of Judicial Supervision on Three Inquisitorial Systems ( 1977 ); The Passive Judiciary: Prosecutorial Discretion and the Guilty Plea ( 1980 ); and numerous articles on criminal law and procedure, the principal subjects that he taught to several generations of Yale Law students.

Songs included are " Plea for Africa ", original Mambazo tunes " Shintsha Sithothobala " and " Angimboni Ofana Naye ", as well as new compositions like " Buya Lindiwe " and " Okuhle Hle ".

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

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.

* Melva Underbakke and Paul Findley, Two Views: Sami Al-Arian ’ s Plea “ Bargain ”, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, July 2006

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

* Thoreau on John Brown – includes A Plea and two additional works

A Plea for Excuses is both a demonstration by example, and a defense of the methods of ordinary language philosophy, which proceeds on the conviction that:

* " Musclehead " on Plea for Peace, Vol.

None of the charges against Walker on which he was given the seven year sentence as detailed in the Plea Agreement involved any loans

* An Africa for Africans: A Plea on Behalf of Territorial Segregation Areas and Their Freedom in a Southern African Colony ( 1927 )

He wrote the books Pleidooi voor het individualisme ( A Plea for Individualism ) and De derde feministische golf ( The Third Feminist Wave ), much of it focusing on Islamic feminism and its impact in Europe.

* Software Piracy Crackdown ‘ Operation Fastlink ’ Yields 50th Guilty Plea, US DoJ press release on Eaves guilty plea ( May 14, 2007 )

He wrote several critical books and pamphlets, including Goya ( 1900 ; the first English monograph on the artist ), A Plea for a Wider Use of Artists & Craftsmen ( 1916 ) and Whither Painting ( 1932 ).

: A Plea on Behalf of Hong Kong ( 1989 )

Hov Arek means " come, breeze ;" however, on the score Dr. Reed put the translation as " The Peasant's Plea.

Professor Klein has had numerous scholarly publications published which have focused on Constitutional Challenges to the Death Penalty, Rape Reform, and Judicial Coercion in the Plea Bargaining Process.

The first single was actually the Stevenson composition " Soldier's Plea ", which had been issued initially as a non-album single and didn't chart but was included on the album as a filler track.

When Jekyll proposes to test his theory and his formula on a human subject ( presumably his father ), they reject the proposal with cries of " sacrilege, lunacy, blasphemy, heresy ", voting five to none with Sir Danvers ' one abstention (" Jekyll's Plea ").