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.

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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 bargaining abuses, such as seeking testimony in exchange for leniency.

" The book Plea Bargaining's Triumph: A History of Plea Bargaining in America published by Stanford University Press defines the plea as one in " which the defendant adheres to his / her claim of innocence even while allowing that the government has enough evidence to prove his / her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt ".

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.

It appears as " Insula de Teynet " and " in Insula de Thaneto " in the Plea Rolls of the Common Pleas, dated 1450, where the cleric Hugh Grobham alias Gromefeld alias Bromfeld is plaintiff in a plea of debt against John Cecely, vicar of St Peters-in-Thanet.

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

* Transcript Of Plea Form, North Carolina, with question about Alford plea

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

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

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

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 ".

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.

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

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.

" He translated the Odyssey, wrote a well-known manual of idiom, A Plea for the Queen's English ( 1863 ), and was the first editor of the Contemporary Review ( 1866 – 1870 ).

He died in 1903 in Newark and was buried in Mount Plea ­ sant Cem ­ e ­ te ­ ry.

Beecher was also notorious for his anti-Catholicism and soon after his arrival in Cincinnati authored the nativist tract " A Plea for the West.

Bahro was the beginning of 1980 graduated with Oskar Negt at the University of Hanover with his thesis rejected in Merseyside, which then appeared as a book entitled A Plea for Creative Initiative.

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

She subsequently authored, Children at Risk, My Fight Against Child Abuse: A Personal Story and a Public Plea, which was published in 1986.

His father was Doctor Alexander Leighton, who was tortured by King Charles I for his puritan beliefs after authoring a pamphlet Zion's Plea against Prelacy in which he criticised the church, condemning Bishops as " antiChristian and satanic ".

His " A Peaceable Plea for Paul's Presbytery in Scotland " ( 1642 ) was followed by his Due Right of Presbyteries ( 1644 ), Divine Right of Church Government and Excommunication " ( 1648 ) and " A Survey of ' A Survey of that Sum of Church Discipline ' penned by Thomas Hooker ( 1655 ), with not only Hooker, but John Cotton and Richard Mather also writing books against Rutherford's view of church government.

One common line of defense of the accused was the Plea of Superior Orders: they stated that they were only following orders from higher up, in particular from Hitler and Field Marshal Keitel.

He was best known for arguing in a 1985 essay " A Plea For the Historicization of National Socialism " that Nazi Germany should be treated as a " normal " period of history.

Their farewell tour was during February – March 2011, with support from MyChildren MyBride, The Chariot, and A Plea for Purging.

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.

* " Plea for Iraq Kidnap Clues " – The Guardian, 24 October 2004

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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.

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

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 agreements have made a limited appearance in Germany.

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.

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