LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The Dilemma, Social Fact, Morality
19 Apr 2016
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Hence a high degree of contingency in the process. Plea bargains: as a mean to control such contingency, when it comes to sentencing and outcomes . Before the trial, or during trial, often when new evidence change the previous balance of power. Definition: p. 74, law reform commission of canada: between crown and council: an agreement by the accused to plead guilty in return for the persecutor"s agreeing to take or refrain from taking a particular course of action. Subcategories of plea bargaining: charge bargaining, sentence bargaining: Promises on the nature of the charges. Promises related to the ultimate sentence that may be meted by the court. Promises on the fact that the crown might bring to the attention of the judges: fact bargaining (1994)), Crown or police cannot enter a plea bargain without council, except if waived (r v. burlingham. A right extended by the charter of rights and freedoms, of accused having the right to retain and.
