guilty pleas
Courtroom confessions to charges
Guilty pleas are formal admissions in court that a defendant committed the charged offense, waiving the right to trial.
Most criminal cases end in guilty pleas rather than trials, often through plea bargains where defendants plead guilty to lesser charges in exchange for reduced sentences: The prosecutor offered a deal, and he entered a guilty plea to avoid trial.
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- confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
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Legal hearings with citizen panels
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Refusals to acknowledge
vindication · defiance · defenses · resistance · acquittals
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