PLEA AGREEMENTS

• retroactivity
• sentencing guidelines
• Fair Sentencing Act
• PLEA AGREEMENTS

Oral argument: Feb. 22, 2011

Appealed from: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (Nov. 20, 2009)

Overview

Many successful criminal prosecutions in the United States end not with jury trials, but with plea bargains. Plea bargains are agreements between defendants and prosecutors in which defendants agree to plead guilty to some or all of the charges against them in exchange for concessions from the prosecutors.

• criminal law
• criminal procedure
• prosecutorial discretion
• prosecutorial misconduct
• federal criminal prosecution
• malicious prosecution
• retaliatory prosecution
• guilty plea
• PLEA AGREEMENTS
• PLEA BARGAIN
• PLEA-BARGAINING
• PLEA NEGOTIATIONS
• plea bargaining
• PLEADING
• right to jury trial
• jury

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