Our criminal justice system simply does not have the resources to hold a trial for every case, so the great majority of criminal cases are resolved through a negotiation process known as “plea ...

In a pair of recent decisions - Lafler v. Cooper and Missouri v. Frye - the U.S. Supreme Court held that criminal defendants have the right to effective assistance of counsel during the ...

Sterling Biotech, an Indian pharmaceutical company, was recently subject to multiple allegations of loan fraud, ultimately ...

In 2006, George Alvarez was charged with assaulting a prison guard while awaiting trial on public intoxication. He knew he didn’t do it — the guards actually jumped him — but the ten year mandatory ...

In a bid to improve judicial efficiency, the Lagos State Ministry of Justice is steadily advancing criminal justice reforms through its plea bargaining and district prosecutor schemes, a development ...

The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Dr Dominic Ayine, says he has turned down plea bargain proposals involving about GH¢38 ...

PETALING JAYA: Lawyers have called for the plea bargain process in criminal trials to be made easier by cutting red tape, and for measures to give those accused of criminal offences a greater chance ...

A former Acting Director-General of NIMASA, Haruna Jauro, and two others facing N304.1 million fraud charges in a Federal High Court in Lagos, have indicated intention to enter into a plea bargain.

Although the concept of the plea bargain option has become popular in Nigeria in recent years, a report by Tope Adebayo LP, a leading law firm based in Lagos State, has stated that plea bargain is not ...

The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Dr Dominic Ayine, says he has turned down plea bargain proposals involving ...