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In law, a plea is a defendant's response to a criminal charge. [1] A defendant may plead guilty or not guilty. Depending on jurisdiction, additional pleas may be available, including nolo contendere (no contest), no case to answer (in the United Kingdom), or an Alford plea (in the United States).
A peremptory plea had only one kind: a plea in bar. A party making a plea in bar could either traverse the other side's pleading (i.e., deny all or some of the facts pleaded) or confess and avoid it (i.e., admit the facts pleaded but plead new ones that would dispel their effect). A traverse could be general (deny everything) or specific.
A nolo contendere plea has the same immediate effects as a plea of guilty, but may have different residual effects or consequences in future actions. For instance, a conviction arising from a nolo contendere plea is subject to any and all penalties, fines, and forfeitures of a conviction from a guilty plea in the same case, and can be considered as an aggravating factor in future criminal actions.
The judge's ruling nixes effort by Kenneth Chesebro, a Trump election lawyer in 2020, to say his guilty plea violated his right to due process.
In exchange for his plea, county prosecutors dropped other charges and recommended a prison sentence of six years. The former student, now 24-year-old Madison Sparks, was in court for the guilty plea.
A young woman took a plea deal Monday in Franklin County Common Pleas Court to avoid a trial for fatally stabbing a teen girl last year.. Bryanna Barozzini, now 20, of Westerville, pleaded guilty ...
In State v. Zweigart, 344 Or. 619 (Or. 2008), the Oregon Supreme Court held that "a jury must agree, not only that a defendant is guilty of a crime, but also on all the facts material to prove the crime." This means the jury would not be allowed to have half of the jurors using one set of facts and the other half using another even if all of ...
Pleas entered would not become invalid later merely due to a wish to reconsider the judgment which led to them, or better information about the Defendant's or the State's case, or the legal position. Plea bargaining "is no more foolproof than full trials to the court or to the jury. Accordingly, we take great precautions against unsound results.