Definition of "plea bargain" []

• An agreement in which a defendant agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge instead of not guilty to a greater one (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "The various agencies who're interested in Howie Tso will look favorably on a plea bargain in exchange for getting something on you that'll stick. ""
• "For a moment she regretted the state attorney’s decision to reject the plea bargain Garcia’s lawyers had offered."
• "I finally graduated from law school in 1993 — at the age of twenty-eight and near the bottom of my class — and, while I waited to take the bar exam, got a job working with Max Gerroux, Dr. Stanton's best friend, a former liberal appeals-court judge who'd given up the bench as part of an elaborate plea bargain over the butt of a joint that a state trooper saw in his car ashtray one day, a plea bargain that allowed him to continue practicing law and smoking joints."