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• plea of guilty — A voluntary plea by an accused admitting the commission of the act charged as a criminal offense, generally permitted except in capital cases. 21 Am J2d Crim L § 484. In a criminal case, an admission or confession of guilt, a submission without… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• plea — / plē/ n [Anglo French plei plai legal action, trial, from Old French plait plaid, from Medieval Latin placitum, from Latin, decision, decree, from neuter of placitus, past participle of placēre to please, be decided] 1 a: an allegation of fact… …   Law dictionary

• guilty — 1 adj guilt·i·er, est 1: having committed a crime: justly charged with a specified crime guilty of larceny 2: involving guilt or culpability guilty knowledge guilty 2 n 1: a plea of a c …   Law dictionary

• Plea — For the pygmy backswimmer genus, see Plea (insect). In legal terms, a plea is simply an answer to a claim made by someone in a civil or criminal case under common law using the adversary system. Colloquially, a plea has come to mean the assertion …   Wikipedia

• plea — In common law pleading (now obsolete with adoption of Rules of Civil Procedure) a pleading; any one in the series of pleadings. More particularly, the first pleading on the part of the defendant. In the strictest sense, the answer which the… …   Black's law dictionary

• plea bargaining — n: the negotiation of an agreement between the prosecution and the defense whereby the defendant pleads guilty to a lesser offense or to one or some of multiple offenses usu. in exchange for more lenient sentencing recommendations, a specific… …   Law dictionary

• plea bargain — n. An agreement made between a criminal defendant and the prosecutor in which the defendant agrees to plead guilty to a lesser offense in exchange for a lighter punishment after conviction. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An… …   Law dictionary

• Guilty (disambiguation) — Guilty can refer to a plea or to a verdict in a criminal case. Guilty is also the name of:A number of songs: *Guilty (1931 song), a 1931 song by Richard Whiting, Harry Akst, and Gus Kahn, popularised by Johnny Desmond and later Margaret Whiting… …   Wikipedia

• plea bargaining — plea′ bar gaining n. law a practice in which a defendant in a criminal case is allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge rather than risk conviction for a graver crime • Etymology: 1960–65, amer …   From formal English to slang

• Plea bargain — A plea bargain (also plea agreement, plea deal or copping a plea) is an agreement in a criminal case whereby the prosecutor offers the defendant the opportunity to plead guilty, usually to a lesser charge or to the original criminal charge with a …   Wikipedia

• plea of not guilty — A plea in a criminal case which denies and controverts the existence of every fact essential to constitute the crime charged or to establish the accused s guilt, placing in issue every essential element of the offense charged. 21 Am J2d Crim L §… …   Ballentine's law dictionary