Plea Decision News Today

These three, at least three types of potential charges on the table and prosecutors would have offered mr. patton in exchange for his cooperation this deal. and part of the deal was well only charge you with one of these crimes that you committed. well give you a pass on the other two. but the rules that prosecutors operate under require prosecutors to disclose all of that conduct to the court so thats why we heard this more fulsome conversation in front of the court when the judge took the plea...

That they know he committed these crimes simply because of the rules of the court, not becauses its some strategic thing ins terms of them tryingo tell the public theyre aware these crimes were committed. >> right. its not public facing. its actually an internal doj practice to fully disclose everything of that nature that you have included in their plea decision. if you were doing it after indictment, you might have a three-count indictment and you would go to the court and say, well permit mr....

That they know he committed these crimes simply because of the rules of the court, not because its some strategic thing in terms of them trying to tell the public that theyre aware that these crimes were committed? >> right. its not public facing. its actually an internal doj practice to fully disclose everything of that nature that you have included in their plea decision. if you were doing it after indictment, you might have a three-count indictment and you would go to the court and say, well ...