Plea Deal

Aaron Sankin

Cyclist Who Killed Grandma Gets Probation

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Bike Collision, San Francisco Bike Trial, Plea Deal, Dionette Cherney, Probation, Vehicular Manslaughter, Randolph Ang, San Francisco Bikes, Bike Accident, George Gascon, San Francisco News

Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi isn't the only San Francisco resident to strike a controversial plea deal from the District Attorney's office this week. On ...

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Men Controversially Convicted Of Killing Boy Scouts Might Be Released

AP | JEANNIE NUSS | Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Arkansas, West Memphis Three, Plea Deal, Damien Echols, Video, Jonesboro, Arkansas Crime, Boy Scouts, West Memphis Three Plea Deal, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley, Innocent, Crime News

UPDATE: After serving 17 years behind bars for the brutal murder of three children in eastern Arkansas, Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr. and Jason...

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David Lohr

EXCLUSIVE: Barefoot Bandit's Mom 'Pleased' With Plea Deal, Wants To Stop Movie

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Plea Deal, Trial, Colton Harris-Moore, Crime News, Crime, Barefoot Bandit, Washington, Burglar, Pam-Kohler, Seattle, Theft, Video, Crime News

The mother of Colton Harris-Moore, the once elusive "Barefoot Bandit," is glad her son entered into a historic plea deal with federal prosecutors Frid...

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Scott Lee Kimball May Challenge Plea Deal

KDVR | Julie Hayden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Boulder Serial Killer, Scott Lee Kimball, Stan Garnett, Plea Deal, Denver News

DENVER - He is Colorado's most prolific serial killer, but a sentencing conflict is raising questions about the plea deal that put Scott Lee Kimball b...

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Isaac Carothers Pleads Guilty: Alderman Admits To Taking Bribes

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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A key Chicago City Council ally of Mayor Daley resigned today after agreeing to a deal that calls for him to spend more than two years in prison for t...

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Sheila Dixon, Baltimore Mayor, Resigns In Plea Deal

AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 05.25.2011

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BALTIMORE — Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon is refusing to back down from her claims that she was forced from office. Dixon is resigning under a p...

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Plea Deal Struck In Case Against Scrub Tech

CBS4Denver | CBS 4 Denver | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Denver, Denver Nurse, Hepatitis C, Denver Hospital, Plea Deal, Home News

A plea deal apparently has been struck in the case of a Colorado surgery technician accused of swapping her dirty syringes for ones filled with...

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The Fraud of Honest-Services Fraud

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gary S. Chafetz

Essentially, honest-services fraud makes prosecutors omnipotent, because they can charge anybody they want with a federal felony.

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