Guilty Pleas Are the Bread and Butter of the American

question 65

Multiple Choice

Guilty pleas are the bread and butter of the American criminal courts. Between 85 and 95 percent of all state and federal felony convictions are obtained by a defendant entering a negotiated plea of guilt (Covey 2008; Hashimoto 2008) . Plea bargaining can best be defined as the process through which a defendant pleads guilty to a criminal charge with the expectation of receiving some consideration from the state.
-When the prosecutor allows the defendant to plead guilty to a less serious charge than the one originally filed this is called

• A)charge bargaining.
• B)count bargaining.
• C)sentence bargaining
• D)limit bargaining.

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