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PLEA BARGAIN [2 records]

Record 1 2024-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sentencing
DEF

For an accused person to agree to plead guilty, or to give material information or testimony in exchange for an apparent advantage which the prosecutor offers, activity within the scope of a prosecutor's seeming authority.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peines
OBS

La transaction en matière pénale.

OBS

[...] l'administration a le droit, après accord du ministère public, de transiger sur la poursuite de certains délits et contraventions.

OBS

[...] la décision de transiger n'est pas en réalité imputable principalement au ministère public.

OBS

[...] s'il est vrai que l'action publique appartient à la seule société, cette dernière confère le droit au ministère public d'en disposer par transaction pour des infractions de droit commun.

OBS

[...] la transaction [...] est considérée [...] comme un mode de gestion efficace de l'action publique en raison de l'économie de temps et de moyen qu'elle permet.

OBS

[...] la transaction [...] constitue une institution juridique propre au droit pénal [...]

OBS

[...] la transaction prévue par les art. [...] cour provinciale pénale [...] pour certaines infractions à la police des services publics des transports terrestres [...]

OBS

[...] si le législateur érige un jour la transaction en mode d'extinction de l'action publique de droit commun.

OBS

négocier un aveu : [...] dans les pays connaissant l'aveu négocié «plea bargaining» comme les pays anglosaxons où les affaires passant à l'audience sont très peu nombreuses.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Penas
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Record 2 2004-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sentencing
OBS

For reasons that will become evident in the course of this working paper, ... we prefer to abandon the expression "plea bargaining" (which, to some, has an inherently negative connotation) in favour of more neutral terminology. In our view, the process with which we are concerned (though unquestionably flawed) may better be described as that of "plea negotiation", or the holding of "plea discussions". The object of that process is to reach a satisfactory agreement, not to give the accused a "bargain". Accordingly, our recommendations eschew the expression "plea bargain" and replace it with "plea agreement". We define that expression (again, in neutral terms) as "any agreement by the accused to plead guilty in return for the prosecutor's agreeing to take or refrain from taking a particular course of action".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peines
OBS

[...] une transaction intervenue entre le coupable et des représentants de la société.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Penas
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