Kevin Cheng

Timing of Guilty Pleas (eBook, PDF)

Lessons from Common Law Jurisdictions

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A detailed study of the importance of the timing of guilty pleas and its effects across different legal jurisdictions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009182744
• Artikelnr.: 70912286

Autorenporträt

Kevin Kwok-yin Cheng is Associate Professor and Assistant Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published widely about guilty pleas, plea bargaining, procedural justice and sentencing. He is co-author of The Hong Kong Legal System (second edition) (Cambridge, 2020).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: the history of the problem of 'Cracked Trials'
2. The sliding scale of sentence discounts
3. Implicit (and explicit) plea bargaining
4. Revisiting the assumptions and methodology
5. Factors affecting the timing of guilty pleas
6. Trial and late-plea penalties
7. Consistency in applying sentence discounts
8. Public opinion and sentence discounts
9. Conclusion
Index.