Litigation Law
Plea Bargaining
A process allowing an accused in certain less serious cases to negotiate a reduced sentence in exchange for pleading guilty.
Plea bargaining lets an accused person, in specified categories of cases (generally excluding serious and socially sensitive offences), apply to the court for a mutually acceptable disposition — often a reduced sentence — in return for pleading guilty and avoiding a full trial.
It is meant to speed up case disposal and give both the accused and the victim (who is also heard in the process) a quicker resolution, but it is voluntary and cannot be used to coerce a plea.
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