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In United States law, an Alford plea, also called a Kennedy plea in West Virginia, [1] an Alford guilty plea, [2] [3] [4] and the Alford doctrine, [5] [6] [7] is a guilty plea in criminal court, [8] [9] [10] whereby a defendant in a criminal case does not admit to the criminal act and asserts innocence, but accepts imposition of a sentence.
This list of U.S. states by Alford plea usage documents usage of the form of guilty plea known as the Alford plea in each of the U.S. states in the United States. An Alford plea (also referred to as Alford guilty plea [1] [2] [3] and Alford doctrine [4] [5] [6]) in the law of the United States is a guilty plea in criminal court, [7] [8] [9] where the defendant does not admit the act and ...
North Carolina v. Alford, 400 U.S. 25 (1970), [1] was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed that there are no constitutional barriers in place to prevent a judge from accepting a guilty plea from a defendant who wants to plead guilty, while still protesting his innocence, under duress, as a detainee status.
An Alford plea is not an admission of guilt but acknowledges that there is enough evidence for a jury to convict. Charges of aggravated murder, murder and attempted murder were dropped as part of ...
Williams is expected to enter the Alford plea of guilty to a charge of first-degree murder in Gayle’s death on Thursday, a spokesperson for the St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said ...
In an Alford plea, a defendant does not admit to the criminal act, but admits the evidence would likely persuade a judge or jury to find him guilty. In an Alford plea, a defendant does not admit ...
Just before his jury trial was set to start, on November 5, 2007, Mack pleaded guilty to first degree murder of his wife and entered an Alford plea on the charge of attempted murder of Judge Weller. The court sentenced him to life for the first plea and to the maximum of 40 years for the second, with the sentences to run consecutively.
The offer is for what's called an "Alford plea," which allows a defendant to maintain innocence despite agreeing that prosecutors have a strong case. Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden ...