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Credit for Guilty Plea The issue of how much credit a defendant can legitimately expect for a guilty plea continues to receive attention from the courts. Adrian Lower In R v Bannergee [2020] EWCA Crim 909, the Court of Appeal held that if a defence advocate indicated a ‘likely guilty plea’ on a Better Case Management form in respect of a case destined for the Crown court, this would not necessarily result in full credit being given when that guilty plea was eventually entered. This was reiterated in R v Hodgin [2020] EWCA Crim 1388. The defence may not receive much more than a case summa...

A view of plea discounts from across the pond The Sentencing Academy, an expert group which examines sentencing in England and Wales, has published new report, "Sentence Reductions for Guilty Pleas: A review of policy, practice and research." This new report was authored by by Jay Gormley, Julian V. Roberts, Jonathan Bild and Lyndon Harris, and here is part of its executive summary: Most convictions in England and Wales in the Crown Court and the magistrates’ courts arise as a result of the defendant entering a guilty plea.  Courts are explicitly required to consider the guilty plea when p...

They tell you a little bit of the evidence. they tell the attorneys what the plea offer is going to be. if you don't accept it they go to the grand jury. what the feds do i can tell you this as a defense attorney practicing in this area you must plead to the highest most readily provable offense. every time they go into the grand jury and ratchet up the charges she is looking at greater exposure and not accepting the responsibility doesn't give her the coveted reductions in the sentencing code like felicity huffman got for a lighter sentence. to quote the great mr. t, the more you wait, pain. ...