Our criminal justice system simply does not have the resources to hold a trial for every case, so the great majority of criminal cases are resolved through a negotiation process known as “plea ...

In a pair of recent decisions - Lafler v. Cooper and Missouri v. Frye - the U.S. Supreme Court held that criminal defendants have the right to effective assistance of counsel during the ...

Sterling Biotech, an Indian pharmaceutical company, was recently subject to multiple allegations of loan fraud, ultimately ...

In 2006, George Alvarez was charged with assaulting a prison guard while awaiting trial on public intoxication. He knew he didn’t do it — the guards actually jumped him — but the ten year mandatory ...

PETALING JAYA: Lawyers have called for the plea bargain process in criminal trials to be made easier by cutting red tape, and for measures to give those accused of criminal offences a greater chance ...

One of the gravest challenges to justice in India is delay. What begins as a pursuit of truth often drags on for decades.

Although the concept of the plea bargain option has become popular in Nigeria in recent years, a report by Tope Adebayo LP, a leading law firm based in Lagos State, has stated that plea bargain is not ...

KALISPELL - The family of a Somers man who was struck and killed by a drunken driver is unhappy with a plea agreement in which the driver could serve as little as a year in prison, followed by alcohol ...