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• What is a plea bargain? |
It is an agreement between the prosecutor and the accused in which the accused pleads guilty in exchange for a lesser sentence or a reduced charge |
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What are the advantages of plea bargaining? |
-reduces uncertainty -offer accused the freedom of choice -saves money (main benefit from the states point of view) -fairer in some ways -less people have to serve on jury -good for someone who is guilty |
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What are the disadvantages of plea bargaining? |
-defense gives up right of trail by jury -community does not have process that attempts to find truth -innocent people plead guilty |
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Probation |
What probation means in the law is that if you plead guilty, you get sentenced -- typically to a prison or jail term -- but instead of going to prison or jail, you're placed on community supervision, which means you are placed on probation |
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Judge's role in a plea bargain |
charge bargaining- passive role sentence bargaining-larger role |
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• What are ate least two symptoms aperson must have to be diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder? |
1) Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment 2) A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation 3) Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self. 4) Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging 5) Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior. 6) Affective instability due to a market reactivity of mood 7) Chronic feelings of emptiness 8) Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger 9) Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms. |
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· What was the main focus of the defense’s case? |
diminished capacity - periodic bouts of depression amounting to a major mental illness |
