Thanks, I’ll have a look at that. I’ve been reading a bit on it and it appears I was wrong. I may have been right say, ten years ago but it’s definitely changed.
Mea culpa, I got it wrong it would appear.
Such bargaining is not officially part of the system in England and Wales, except in complex fraud cases, but the judicial sentencing guidelines suggests those who plead guilty at the earliest hearing over other crimes may be given a reduction of up to a third of their sentence.
The main...
We don’t have plea bargaining in the U.K.
rightly or wrongly, we base our system on proving innocence or guilt.
In the U.S plea bargaining is the standard approach. That’s for a number of reasons.
There is more racism in the States.
You have a vast private prison network. Ours is going that...