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In U.S. criminal law, a proffer agreement, proffer letter, proffer, or "Queen for a Day" letter is a written agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant or prospective witness that allows the defendant or witness to give the prosecutor information about an alleged crime, while limiting the prosecutor's ability to use that information against him or her.
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What happens if the former president is sentenced to jail in his New York trial?
The legislature generally sets a short, mandatory minimum sentence that an offender must spend in prison (e.g. one-third of the minimum sentence, or one-third of the high end of a sentence). The parole board then sets the actual date of prison release, as well as the rules that the parolee must follow when released.
Erik Menendez was never supposed to keep the 17-page, soul-baring letter his older brother Lyle wrote to him in May 1990 when they were being held in county jail. Lyle wrote the letter two months ...
Character evidence is also admissible in a criminal trial if offered by a defendant as circumstantial evidence—through reputation or opinion evidence—to show an alleged victim's "pertinent" character trait—for example, to support the defendant's claim of self-defense to a charge of homicide.
Bloomington area residents share their opinions about a new county jail, challengers' complaints about county commissioners, advocating for LGBTQ+ Letters: Jail proposal, county commissioner ...