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 ...

Plea bargaining is back in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. For the third time in little more than two years, the court is being asked to decide the reach of the Sixth Amendment as it relates to the ...

Chief Justice Rizine Mzikamanda yesterday launched a plea bargaining drive to decongest the country’s prisons by clearing a mounting backlog of criminal cases through prison camp courts. Speaking at a ...

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 ...

Criminals who may have committed grave crimes or even a chain of offences can by law get away with their misdeeds by pleading to lesser charges — all in the name of saving judicial and prosecutorial ...

Judge O'Connor agrees with the 737 MAX crashes victims' families that the deal's proposed corporate monitor provision "marginalizes" the court and raises other concerns. Today Judge Reed O'Connor ...