How to Use plea bargaining in a Sentence

plea bargaining

noun

• As a result of plea bargaining, he would not be sentenced to death.
• The case could resovle in a lesser charge through plea bargaining.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2020
• That's the whole problem with plea bargaining [charges] down.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 1 Oct. 2019
• The law does not provide for what the American law provides, plea bargaining and all that.
  — Tom Wright, WSJ, 14 June 2018
• If a judge decides Stone’s complaint can go forward, the case could serve to shape the court system’s evolving view of plea bargaining.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2020
• Mr Mendes also favours restricting the use of plea bargaining.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
• Criminal trials have also fallen off, due to plea bargaining and the great expense of going to court.
  — Edward D. McCarthy, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2018
• Yet despite the drawbacks of trial by jury, the alternative—the ad hoc practice called plea bargaining—is far worse.
  — Clark Neily and Somil Trivedi, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2021
• Prior studies have found racial disparities in the plea bargaining process.
  — Richard Prince, The Root, 26 Oct. 2017
• But Mexico has no formal version of plea bargaining, and no phrase to really describe it.
  — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2017
• To other legal observers, the round of charges is a routine part of plea bargaining that is drawing attention because of the high-profile nature of a scandal that has drawn nationwide attention.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2019
• That would allow the special counsel’s team to pressure them into plea bargaining negotiations in hopes of receiving a lighter sentence.
  — Matt Ford, New Republic, 22 Feb. 2018
• The crackdown has been enabled by better-trained and more independent prosecutors, as well as legal changes like the use of plea bargaining, former U.S. and Latin American officials say.
  — Ryan Dube, WSJ, 23 Aug. 2018
• Wisconsin also has a plea bargaining process that is not guided by mandatory maximums or minimums, which means the sentences and punishment are almost always left up to the discretion of prosecutors and judges.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 26 Oct. 2017
• Although many of its critics are self-interested, others worry about the prosecutors’ use of preventive detention and plea bargaining.
  — The Economist, 15 June 2019
• That quotation came from Judge Jackson’s undergraduate college thesis, which criticized the plea bargaining system.
  — New York Times, 21 Mar. 2022
• Perhaps nothing contributes more to mass incarceration than plea bargaining.
  — Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2021
• But as the legal system grew increasingly professionalized, plea bargaining became more common.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Jan. 2022
• Stamina Founder Davide Vannoni was convicted of criminal conspiracy after plea bargaining in 2015 and is now under investigation again.
  — Luca Tancredi Barone, Science | AAAS, 24 May 2018
• In particular, coercive plea bargaining artificially lowers the cost of obtaining a criminal conviction.
  — Clark Neily and Somil Trivedi, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2021
• Making sweeping changes to plea bargaining, downgrading the emphasis on forensic evidence and eyewitness testimony, and reducing prosecutorial discretion have little traction among law enforcement groups and political leaders.
  — Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024