In 2014, he plea-bargained a prison sentence for the fraudulent bankruptcy of a company he was president of.
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Mark Salling has plea bargained his child pornography case ... pleading guilty to possession of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor.
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Counseling was only available to defendants who plea-bargained and formally admitted guilt; anyone who dared assert her innocence risked a misdemeanor charge and possible prison time.
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Like the more than 94 percent of state-level felony defendants in America, I plea-bargained and received a fine, probation and community service, but avoided jail time.
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Mr. Tafero and Ms. Jacobs, who maintained that Mr. Rhodes had done the shooting, were sentenced to death, while Mr. Rhodes, who testified against the couple, plea-bargained with authorities, reducing his sentence to life.
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Noting that the law prohibited him from giving any consideration to the murder case, he said that the remaining offenses, in isolation, would never even appear in a felony court—they'd be plea-bargained in a village court.
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In another case, a woman alleged she had been repeatedly sexually assaulted by a guard and forced to give birth in shackles—though the guard plea bargained to a single felony count, a jury awarded the woman $6.7 million.
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It wouldn't be hard to find, among the tens of thousands of cases that are plea-bargained in New York City alone every year, one in which a poor kid is penalized by a law that's out of all proportion to the offense—there are kids who get locked up for drug offenses that in nearby states are no longer even misdemeanors.
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A fifth private prison was still under contract to CCA. McCrory plea bargained to lesser federal charges.
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See Loss of control (defence). It is a defence to murder, if accepted or plea-bargained, resulting in manslaughter by reason of loss of control.
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Wolff's conviction was overturned on appeal in 2008, but he eventually plea bargained for a sentence of 3–5 years. Wolff resigned as CEO in January 2002, and was replaced by a new management team. Homestore.com, Inc. changed its name to Homestore, Inc.
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He also fathered another son, Harry Dalsey after divorcing his wife Marjorie. Harry admitted to killing Guy Broomfield in 1999, and plea bargained it down to manslaughter. Adrian Dalsey married Harry's mother Annie, and they were together until he died in 1994, in Walnut Creek, California.
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The city was fined almost as much during the civil trial for withholding evidence. While on trial for child abuse, Douglas Country also prosecuted the Robersons for welfare fraud, a case the Robersons described as "harassment". After their acquittal, they plea- bargained this case to community service for Robert.
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Ultimately, however, Allin plea bargained to the reduced charge of felonious assault, and he was imprisoned from December 25, 1989, to March 26, 1991. It was during this time in prison that Allin began feeling re-energized about his life and "mission". He wrote The GG Allin Manifesto during this period.
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She served 21 years of her sentence and was released on parole in December 2007. William Merritt, who testified against Kell, was released from prison after serving only 4 years of an 8-to-12-year, plea-bargained sentence. He later returned for subsequent crimes, and is now serving life in prison without parole. Troy Kell was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
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Dennis Oury, Ferriero's co-defendant, plea bargained with the prosecution prior to the trial; on September 29, 2009, he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and a reduced charge of failing to file a tax return. Oury was called as a witness by the prosecution on October 6 and completed his testimony on October 7.Ferriero Trial Blog, via NorthJersey.com The trial began on October 1, 2009.
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He gave Kayla a divorce but still maintained that he was provoked into his attack on her, and refused to call it rape. He plea-bargained to domestic assault when she took him to court, and he continued to harass her whenever he saw her. He claimed he had been railroaded into that plea-bargain. Meanwhile, Melissa Horton, his assistant and Jennifer Horton's cousin, was in love with him.
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Dugan plea-bargained his charges in the two murders for which he had been apprehended to life imprisonment. In 1987, the charges against Buckley were dismissed by a judge. On January 19, 1988, the Illinois Supreme Court struck down the convictions of Cruz and Hernandez because the two were not tried separately. Both were retried despite public pressure on the DuPage County State's Attorney's office to investigate the Dugan confession.
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Youssef was then charged with money laundering in the Banestado scandal. Banestado was a state-run bank that had been used by many wealthy persons to launder money and thus avoid high Brazilian taxes. Youssef was in charge of the money laundering, and was said to have laundered more than $830 million. Once again, Youssef plea-bargained, turning in other doleiros, whose conviction and imprisonment only enhanced Youssef's standing in his profession.
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In 1989, Toward, owner of Glendale Montessori School, pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse charges and received a 27-year sentence. While technically maintaining his innocence, he allowed a guilty plea to be entered against him, convicting him of molesting or kidnapping six boys. Toward was placed in involuntary commitment due to the Jimmy Ryce Act. Although he maintained his innocence, Toward said he plea-bargained to avoid an almost certain life sentence.
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Due to the nature of Bakley's mail-order business and other dealings, she was arrested several times. In 1989, she was arrested in Memphis for drug possession and fined $300. In 1995, she was arrested for attempting to pass two bad checks from an account of a Memphis record company. Bakley was fined $1,000 and sentenced to work on a penal farm on weekends after she plea bargained down to lesser charges.
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Along with three other men, Simpson was charged with multiple felony counts, including criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, assault, robbery, and using a deadly weapon. Bail was set at $125,000, with stipulations that Simpson have no contact with the co- defendants and that he surrender his passport. Simpson did not enter a plea. By the end of October 2007, all three of Simpson's co-defendants had plea- bargained with the prosecution in the Clark County, Nevada, court case.
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In 1975, Barnett pleaded guilty to exposing himself to maids in a hallway of the Circus Circus Las Vegas. According to police reports in Clark County, Nevada, dated November 23, 1975, Barnett masturbated in front of four maids in the hallway of the Circus Circus Hotel. The initial charge of indecent exposure, a misdemeanor, was plea bargained down to "open and gross lewdness," a charge Barnett pleaded guilty to, paying a fine of $100. The case was closed on April 30, 1976.
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In October, Beauprez started running ads that attacked Ritter's performance as Denver district attorney, citing a plea-bargained case against illegal immigrant and alleged heroin dealer Carlos Estrada Medina. Under the plea bargain, the dealer was given probation. Later, he was arrested in California, under an alias, on suspicion of sexual abuse on a child. But the fact that that information couldn't be verified in public court records prompted inquiries to Beauprez's campaign as to where it got its facts.
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He was aided by several female accomplices, some of whom are in prison or have served time there for their participation in his fraudulent mortgage practices. Cox was arrested on November 16, 2006. Indicted on 42 counts, and facing prison sentences of up to 400 years, he plea bargained his sentence down to a maximum of 54 years on April 11, 2007 and was sentenced to 26 years on November 17, 2006. He was released from prison in July 2019.
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Biljana Plavšić (; born July 7, 1930) is a Bosnian Serb convicted war criminal and retired politician who served as president of Republika Srpska. She was indicted in 2001 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for war crimes committed during the Bosnian War. She plea- bargained with the ICTY and was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2003, to be served in a Swedish prison. She was released on 27 October 2009 after serving two-thirds of her sentence.
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McCrory plea-bargained to lesser federal charges. He had long worked as a consultant to prison contractors: first to Cornell Companies of Houston, Texas, which built and operated the Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility in Mississippi, and the GEO Group (which acquired Cornell). Last McCrory advised GEO's successor, Utah's Management and Training Corporation. In 2015 MTC held a $60 million contract to operate four Mississippi prisons, including Wilkinson County Correctional Facility, which had previously been operated by the Corrections Corporation of America, now known as CoreCivic.
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Palmer, after much posturing, admitted that he possessed the paintings and plea-bargained his way out of charges. The definitive end to Palmer and Opal's marriage came when Palmer had to decide between relinquishing the paintings and staying with Opal or faking his death and escaping with the artwork. In the end he lost both. Irritated with Opal's friendship with Adrian and her aid in catching him, Palmer sought revenge on Opal and made her reveal that Adrian was her son from an interracial affair.
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The defendant must accept the penalty for the charges (even if the plea-bargained sentence has some particular matters in further compensation proceedings), no matter how serious the charges are. Sometimes, the prosecutor agrees to reduce a charge or to drop some of multiple charges in exchange for the defendant's acceptance of the penalty. The defendant, in the request, could argue with the penalty and aggravating and extenuating circumstancing with the prosecutor, that can accept or refuse. The request could also be made by the prosecutor.
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Stephen V. "Steve" Shepich (October 12, 1948 - October 24, 2013) was a Democrat member of the Michigan House of Representatives. He was the head of the Michigan House Fiscal Agency at the start of 1993. He and several of his associated were prosecuted for fraudulent activity. He plea bargained to charges of fraudulent travel reimbursement and resigned his seat, 20 years after he became head of the Michigan House Fiscal Agency.Daniel Loepp, Sharing the Balance of Power: An Examination of Shared Power in the Michigan House of Representatives, 1993-94\.
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Besides for Gagné, Serge Boutin also turned Crown's evidence. In February 2000, Boutin killed another drug dealer and police informer Claude Des Serres in a skiing chalet in the Laurentians mountains. As Des Serres was wearing a wire at the time Boutin tortured and killed him, the police listened in to the last minutes of his life. Facing a life sentence, Boutin cut a deal with the Crown where he plea- bargained to pleading guilty to manslaughter and serving 7 years in prison in exchange for testifying against Boucher.
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Furthermore, MacDougall was worried about going before the jury and lying to get himself acquitted. He thus changed his mind and agreed to cooperate fully with the FCC. At his first hearing on the afternoon of July 22, he pleaded guilty to the charge of "illegally operating a satellite uplink transmitter", a violation of 47 U.S.C. § 301. Under an agreement with Gentile, MacDougall plea bargained and received a $5,000 fine, was put on unsupervised probation for one year, and had his amateur radio license suspended for one year.
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In 1995, after the death of her first husband, Raynella discovered that he had an affair with another woman that resulted in the birth of a child. Her late husband's mistress, Kaye Clift Walker, was in the middle of a divorce with Steve Walker; the mistress revealed to Raynella that she had an affair with Dossett and that he had fathered one of her children. Soon after, Raynella lured Walker to her farm, where she allegedly opened fire on Walker until she ran out of bullets. She was charged with attempted murder, but plea bargained to a lesser charge.
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By the early 1970s, BBN bought a laundromat on Moulton Street and tore it down for a new, seven-story headquarters. In 1980, the U.S. federal government charged BBN with contracts fraud, alleging that from 1972 to 1978, BBN altered time sheets to hide overcharging the government. That year, two top financial officers plea bargained for suspended sentences and $20,000 fines, and the company paid a $700,000 fine. BBN's September 1994 celebration of the 25th anniversary of ARPANET generated much local and national news coverage from outlets including The Boston Globe, Newsweek, and National Public Radio.
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On 23 August twelve arrest warrants and search and seizure warrants were served in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, focusing on BTG Pactual and Petrobras. The investigation was based on the (plea-bargained investigative cooperation) of former minister Antonio Palocci. Besides the identification of beneficiaries of the so-called "Italian Special Program" and the method of delivering illegal funds to authorities, the phase also clarified the existence of corruption involving federal and state-owned oil finance institutions in exploration of the Brazilian pre-salt layer and in a project to divest assets on the African continent.
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McKenzie's blood test came back a few days later, showing a blood glucose content of 1200 mg/dL, indicating severe hyperglycemia. When Barnbaum's physician assistant saw the test results, he immediately called police, who found McKenzie dead in his apartment. The PA suspected soon afterward that Barnbaum was an imposter, believing that a real doctor would have never missed such obvious symptoms. The investigation confirmed this, and in 1980 Barnbaum was charged with second-degree murder in McKenzie's death; the charge was plea-bargained down to manslaughter and practicing without a medical license, and he was sentenced to three years and four months jail, serving 19 months before being paroled.
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However, Judge I. Leo Glasser barred Shargel and Bruce Cutler from representing Gravano and Gotti, respectively, agreeing with prosecutors' assertion that the lawyers were "house counsel" to the Gambinos. Prosecutors, including now-Judge John Gleeson, contended that since Shargel and Cutler may have known about criminal activity, they were "part of the evidence" and liable to be called as witnesses. Shargel's high-profile clients include Daniel Pelosi, who was charged and later convicted of the second-degree murder of East Hampton millionaire Ted Ammon, and Robert "Joe" Halderman in the matter of Halderman's extortion of TV personality David Letterman. Shargel represented Halderman from October 2009 to March 9, 2010, when Halderman entered a plea-bargained guilty plea.
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MacDougall eventually abandoned his control of the satellite. Although the intrusion was a minor annoyance to viewers, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) with assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigated the jamming. After the FCC identified the transmitters and stations equipped with the specific character generator evidently used during the broadcast signal intrusion, MacDougall surrendered to the authorities, after which he was served with a court subpoena due to a tourist having overheard him discussing the incident on a pay phone off Interstate 75. Under an agreement with the prosecutor, he plea bargained and was sanctioned with a $5,000 fine, one-year unsupervised probation, and a one-year suspension of his amateur radio license.
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Because attorney George P. Monaghan held that the confession was invalid on the grounds that Yukl was not advised of his rights before interrogation began, Keenan (now prosecutor) and Monaghan plea-bargained in February 1968 to agree to a charge of manslaughter; Keenan later cited "grave fears" at the office about appeal and overturn and doubt about proving premeditation in a first-degree murder trial. Judge George Postel sentenced Yukl to seven and a half to fifteen years including time served. In a memo at sentencing, Keenan recommended against parole for "severity of crime and leniency of sentence". A "model inmate", Yukl served five years and four months total (at state prisons; at Sing Sing from August 1969 to August 1970, called "two years" by the Daily News; and the remainder at the medium-security Wallkill Correctional Facility).
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Broussard was beaten and stabbed twice with a pocket knife belonging to 17-year-old Jon Buice. He died several hours later as a result of both internal injuries as well as what an expert medical examiner termed "a delay in treatment" (In the early days of the AIDS crisis, police and medical personnel were slow to respond to calls from the Montrose area for fear of AIDS contamination.) When Houston gay rights leader Ray Hill confronted police about solving the murder, he was told that they had no intention of doing so. Gay rights advocates, frustrated about being ignored and persecuted by city officials, marched through the streets and in front of the mayor's home for several days in what became Houston's largest and long-lasting gay rights demonstration in history. Ultimately, the boys – labeled "The Woodlands Ten" – were apprehended and plea bargained into prison without a trial for the murder of Broussard.
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