How to Use plea bargaining in a Sentence
plea bargaining
noun
- As a result of plea bargaining, he would not be sentenced to death.
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The case could resovle in a lesser charge through plea bargaining.
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Bruce Vielmetti,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
26 Aug. 2020
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That's the whole problem with plea bargaining [charges] down.
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Chloe Foussianes,
Town & Country,
1 Oct. 2019
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The law does not provide for what the American law provides, plea bargaining and all that.
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Tom Wright,
WSJ,
14 June 2018
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If a judge decides Stone’s complaint can go forward, the case could serve to shape the court system’s evolving view of plea bargaining.
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Kim Bellware,
Washington Post,
5 Feb. 2020
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Mr Mendes also favours restricting the use of plea bargaining.
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The Economist,
21 Sep. 2017
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Criminal trials have also fallen off, due to plea bargaining and the great expense of going to court.
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Edward D. McCarthy,
BostonGlobe.com,
8 May 2018
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Yet despite the drawbacks of trial by jury, the alternative—the ad hoc practice called plea bargaining—is far worse.
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Clark Neily and Somil Trivedi,
WSJ,
12 Dec. 2021
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Prior studies have found racial disparities in the plea bargaining process.
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Richard Prince,
The Root,
26 Oct. 2017
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But Mexico has no formal version of plea bargaining, and no phrase to really describe it.
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Washington Post,
14 Dec. 2017
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To other legal observers, the round of charges is a routine part of plea bargaining that is drawing attention because of the high-profile nature of a scandal that has drawn nationwide attention.
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BostonGlobe.com,
26 Oct. 2019
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That would allow the special counsel’s team to pressure them into plea bargaining negotiations in hopes of receiving a lighter sentence.
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Matt Ford,
New Republic,
22 Feb. 2018
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The crackdown has been enabled by better-trained and more independent prosecutors, as well as legal changes like the use of plea bargaining, former U.S. and Latin American officials say.
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Ryan Dube,
WSJ,
23 Aug. 2018
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Wisconsin also has a plea bargaining process that is not guided by mandatory maximums or minimums, which means the sentences and punishment are almost always left up to the discretion of prosecutors and judges.
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Michael Harriot,
The Root,
26 Oct. 2017
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Although many of its critics are self-interested, others worry about the prosecutors’ use of preventive detention and plea bargaining.
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The Economist,
15 June 2019
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That quotation came from Judge Jackson’s undergraduate college thesis, which criticized the plea bargaining system.
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New York Times,
21 Mar. 2022
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Perhaps nothing contributes more to mass incarceration than plea bargaining.
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Washington Post,
19 Feb. 2021
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But as the legal system grew increasingly professionalized, plea bargaining became more common.
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Henry Gass,
The Christian Science Monitor,
12 Jan. 2022
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Stamina Founder Davide Vannoni was convicted of criminal conspiracy after plea bargaining in 2015 and is now under investigation again.
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Luca Tancredi Barone,
Science | AAAS,
24 May 2018
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In particular, coercive plea bargaining artificially lowers the cost of obtaining a criminal conviction.
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Clark Neily and Somil Trivedi,
WSJ,
12 Dec. 2021
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Making sweeping changes to plea bargaining, downgrading the emphasis on forensic evidence and eyewitness testimony, and reducing prosecutorial discretion have little traction among law enforcement groups and political leaders.
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Washington Post,
19 Feb. 2021
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