Pleading Guilty in Lower Courts

Plea Bargaining

Is plea bargaining, synonymous to pleading guilty. Day by day, partakers in criminal justice system are either in confusion or in an intellectual debate on the innovative changes in sentencing system under the Indian Criminal jurisprudence. Of course, root cause is the introduction of Chapter XXIA, in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, containing Sections 265 A to 265L, which deal with plea ...

Brain abnormalities in murderers indicated by positron emission tomography.

Murderers pleading not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) are thought to have brain dysfunction, but there have been no previous studies reporting direct measures of both cortical and subcortical brain functioning in this specific group. Positron emission tomography brain imaging using a continuous performance challenge task was conducted on 41 murderers pleading not guilty by reason of insani...

Pre - trial Social Inquiry Reports on Defendants pleading Not Guilty : are they acceptable ?

After a brief review of the problems associated with pre-trial social inquiry reports on defendants pleading not guilty,.this paper focuses on one of these problems: the impact on the report of the uncertainty about the nature and the number of the offence (s) of which the defendant may eventually be convicted. Research findings are reported which indicate that the offence is an element of info...

Fear of Not Flying

IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND there was a curious gap between the study and practice of law. From the thirteenth century to the seventeenth, the main language used for pleading in common law courts was Law French. It seems to have developed because Latin, the language of formal records, carried too much historical freight from Roman law for the peculiarities of English circumstances, whereas medieval Eng...

Guilty Plea Negotiations and the Exclusionary Rule of Evidence: A Case Study of Chicago Narcotics Courts