Plea Bargaining
nounid
110767·updated May 18, 2026verified
(criminal law) a negotiation in which the defendant agrees to enter a plea of guilty to a lesser charge and the prosecutor agrees to drop a more serious charge
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Variants
- synonym
- plea bargain
- plural
- Plea Bargainings
- possessive
- Plea Bargaining's
- pluralpossessive
- Plea Bargainings'
Framework definitions
- §1
- (criminal law) a negotiation in which the defendant agrees to enter a plea of guilty to a lesser charge and the prosecutor agrees to drop a more serious charge
- §1 · legacy_primary
- (criminal law) a negotiation in which the defendant agrees to enter a plea of guilty to a lesser charge and the prosecutor agrees to drop a more serious chargeDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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