Guilty pleas are the bread and butter of the American criminal courts. Between 85 and 95 percent of all state and federal felony convictions are obtained by a defendant entering a negotiated plea of guilt (Covey 2008; Hashimoto 2008). Plea bargaining can best be defined as the process through which a defendant pleads guilty to a criminal charge with the expectation of receiving some consideration from the state.
-When the prosecutor allows the defendant to plead guilty to one charge and dismisses the rest this is called

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This is called count bargaining, where the prosecutor dismisses certain counts in exchange for a guilty plea to a lesser charge. Charge bargaining involves reducing the severity of the charge, sentence bargaining involves agreeing to a specific sentence, and limit bargaining is not a recognized term in plea bargaining.

Guilty Pleas Are the Bread and Butter of the American