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1973 Nevada State Jrnl. 15 Jan. 14/4 Street had earlier plea bargained his case, entering a guilty plea to the hit and run charge and two counts of possession of stolen property.

1975 F. De Felitta Audrey Rose xxiii. 331 Sometimes..he'd allow himself to be plea-bargained by some green-behind-the-ears attorney.

1980 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Jrnl. 23 Oct. b4/3 He originally was charged with second-degree murder but the charge was plea bargained to manslaughter.

1989 L. Block Out on Cutting Edge (1990) 287 His Legal Aid Lawyer plea-bargained him, but he still went away for—I don't know, a few years.

1994 Daily Herald (Chicago) 3 Mar. i. 10/4 Du Page County State's Attorney..plea-bargained a deal for a rapist.

1974 Newsweek 28 Jan. 14/2 Jaworski was plea-bargaining with a number of the principals—‘dealing up’ with reduced charges in return for their testimony against their betters.

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 22 May 3/3 That attitude, shared by some other judges here, is yet another reason for the sharp increase in jury trials. So is Connick's refusal to plea bargain with defendants in all but a relative handful of cases.

1989 T. Clancy Clear & Present Danger xvi. 340 If he wimped out on the prosecution, plea-bargaining down to a trifling twenty years, all his work, all his speeches about Justice would be forgotten.

1995 This Mag. Mar. 15/2 Ted Bundy described his own movement from pornography to rape and murder. Bundy, however, was trying to plea-bargain for his life when he made this confession.