No more retroactive immunity, easy plea-bargain deals, or soft fines for bank crimes.
In New York City, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg expressed anger on Monday at what he called a revolving-door system for criminals, made easier by plea bargains.
The prosecutors could sift through the broader array of criminal charges and sentences passed by legislators to make deals, taking many of what Mr. Stuntz called "easy guilty pleas".
"Either the defendant is guilty," she writes, "but gets off easy by copping a plea, or the defendant is innocent but pleads guilty to avoid the risk of greater punishment".
They are ready to take up legislation early next year, a task made easier by Mr. Obama's plea for immediate action and by tentative encouragement from business, labor and provider groups.
It's an efficient system: Police get easy arrests, courts get guilty pleas, service providers like like Restore NYC, an anti sex trafficking charity that partners with the HTIC, get clients to "save".
A solution to that problem is fairly easy: allow the defendant to withdraw the plea and take his chances at trial.
The clumsy editing is so distracting that it's easy to miss Tony's point: a plea that Livia not testify against him about the stolen tickets.
The overloaded court system has also seen comparatively little expansion in many places, making a huge increase in plea bargains a cheap and easy way to handle a near-tripling in felony cases over the past generation.
FRANKFURT — While the Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaras, will be greeted with military honors when he arrives in Berlin on Friday, his pleas for easier bailout terms could meet with a cool reception, setting up tension that could unsettle the financial markets this week.
Now the pleas for easier rules are not well received.
