"Reaching the plea agreement was a reasonable way to resolve the case in view of the appellate court decision, which dismissed a series of criminal bias charges that had been leveled against the defendant by a grand jury in Middlesex County," prosecutor Andrew Carey said in a statement on Thursday.
He reached a plea agreement the next year on the North Carolina misdemeanor charges and paid a $900 fine.
The eighth defendant, the officer, reached a plea agreement that allowed him to avoid a trial but resulted in his dismissal from the military.
Faulkner and the 60 Minutes crew returned to Australia earlier this year after the Nine Network reached a plea bargain to ensure the release of its staff.
In 2007, after Australia's prime minister at the time, John Howard, came under pressure over the case, the United States government reached a plea deal.
The Supreme Court recently extended Gideon's reach to the plea bargaining process, a potentially encouraging development.
Gates, a former deputy campaign manager on the Trump campaign who has reached a plea deal with the special counsel team being led by Robert Mueller, testified that he helped Manafort cheat on his taxes and hide his foreign bank accounts from the government.
The former player, Miladin Kovacevic, 23, had reached a plea bargain with the prosecution in September.
For all of the spectacle surrounding his case, Mr. Harris-Moore reached a plea deal with the government in part by pledging that he would not profit from publicizing it in the future.
The transcript of the meeting shows that discussion centered on a witness who was not identified but who was said to have reached a plea agreement with the government, had been extensively debriefed by the F.B.I., and would provide two days of testimony on issues that might include the attacks in Somalia.
