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…a person is convicted they go straight to jail without having to wait for a sentencing date. Also, with mandatory minimum sentencing there is no chance of a plea bargain. Many people are also against mandating minimum sentences. Their main argument…

…to drop the military ban against homosexuals. Gay and lesbian soldiers, like any soldiers, should be honored and respected for their dedication to this nation. The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is essentially a plea bargain. The policy is a result…

…boy plea-bargaining and the other four having to serve out their sentences given to them already by the court. Only one of the nine innocent Scottsboro boys was ever pardoned. Over time, the Scottsboro boys grew from boys to men and with the progression…

…was allowed to plea bargain to vehicular manslaughter. Although he was sentenced to two years in prison, the judge allowed the offender to serve time in work camp and later a halfway house. This organization is made up of moms, dads, and young people. MADD’s…

…, the SDC agreed to a strange plea bargain in 1937 whereby four defendants were released and the remaining five endured lengthy prison sentences--the last defendant was not freed until 1950. Although the ILD did not win the defendants' unconditional release…

…; the Church was not greater than he was. Eventually Philip tired of the games between himself and the papacy and had Boniface killed to settle the problem. This only lead to a greater argument. The inability to bargain with the royalty in Italy drove…

…of Agamemnon their King and also that of her own, became a crazy woman’s plea for help. All she could do was tell them of her knowledge and ask for them to believe. After her proclamations of the fall of Troy the town still could not develop a belief for her story…

…of income. Capone owed $215,080.48 in taxes. Now the government had sufficient evidence to indict him of the felony of income tax evasion and other various assessment misdemeanors. Capone thought he could plea bargain with the judge, but The Honorable Judge…

…of a plea bargain.         The argument against mandatory minimum sentencing is , however, as strong as the argument against them. The main reason against this type of sentencing is what I spoke of in the introduction, overcrowded prisons. In a time when…

….         The re-institution of the death penalty has not been the deterrent against violent crimes that advocates had hoped for. Part of the reason is the ability of an accused to plea bargain and avoid the death penalty all together and another is the anticipated…