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As part of the deal, prosecutors in Missouri will seek no more than four years in prison for Reid. But the victim's family issued a statement saying they hope he receives the maximum seven-year ...
A deferred adjudication, also known in some jurisdictions as an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal (ACOD), probation before judgment (PBJ), or deferred entry of judgment (DEJ), is a form of plea deal available in various jurisdictions, where a defendant pleads "guilty" or "no contest" to criminal charges in exchange for meeting certain requirements laid out by the court within an ...
But then, only hours after entering that plea, another arm of the state, the attorney general’s office, opposed the deal. And so, on Thursday, the Missouri Supreme Court agreed to make it disappear.
A plea bargain, also known as a plea agreement or plea deal, is a legal arrangement in criminal law where the defendant agrees to plead guilty or no contest to a charge in exchange for concessions from the prosecutor. These concessions can include a reduction in the severity of the charges, the dismissal of some charges, or a more lenient ...
A man in his bathrobe raced to save his chihuahua from an attacking coyote in South Carolina, video shows. “Roxie is a part of my family,” Timothy Snipe, who lives in the Charleston-area town ...
Eiken Elam Saimon is a man who was convicted by Missouri of three counts of first-degree murder for opening fire on a church congregation in Neosho, Missouri in 2007. Saimon is a native of Pohnpei and a national of the Federated States of Micronesia; he was living in Neosho at the time of the shootings. Witnesses reported that on 12 August 2007 ...
"It may be the case that after the mom's trial gets sorted away, maybe the dad tries to strike a plea deal, but it also might be the case the prosecutor has refused to do a plea deal with him ...
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.