Sentence examples for on plea from inspiring English sources

His new policy claiming to clamp down on plea bargains leaves lots of bargaining room.

Today the entire criminal justice system depends for its survival on plea bargaining.

Under a Justice Department program that relies on plea deals, most are charged with misdemeanors like improper entry.

Both appeared before Justice Farber on Tuesday, and their cases were put off until April 9 for disposition, indicating they, too, were probably working on plea agreements.

"Padilla was really a watershed moment in bringing a constitutional framework to bear on plea bargaining," said Jenny Roberts, a law professor at American University.

Stephanos Bibas, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an authority on plea bargaining, said the decisions were a great step forward.

The attorney general has clear guidelines on plea-bargaining.

They're reporting a clear influence on pleas with the very strong temptation for defendants to plead guilty to avoid a higher charge.

The Court of Appeals handed down the 1998 decision on pleas in capital cases after Mr. Edwards had pleaded guilty but before he was sentenced.

U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir sounded off on pleas for a 2014 Sochi Olympics boycott in the wake of controversial anti-gay legislation in Russia.

U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan formally administered the sentence on Stamford, Conn., company SAC Capital and three related entities based on pleas last fall by the companies to wire fraud and securities fraud.