Sentence examples for taken a plea from inspiring English sources

I had taken a plea deal – 95% of criminal defendants do.

The former priest, Edward Avery, 70, admitted to an earlier abuse complaint, but said he had never had any contact with the accuser in a continuing criminal trial and had taken a plea deal because he had not wanted to risk a longer sentence if convicted.

To win a challenge under the new standard, a defendant must show that with effective counsel, he would have taken a plea offer, the judge would have approved it and the deal would have been more favorable than the case's outcome.

He was not taking a plea".

"He had to take a plea," she said.

After spending nine months in county jail, she took a plea bargain and was released.

Private Burnett took a plea deal, confessing to voluntary manslaughter for a lighter sentence.

Mr. Keitt took a plea, spent a year and a half in prison.

He decided to take a plea deal: a suspended sentence and ten years of probation.

"Quite often defendants are intimidated into taking a plea," she said.

When Marsellus took a plea bargain, the federal attorney indicted the speaker of the Louisiana House.