The Criminal Justice process has fifteen different stages: initial contact (police), investigation (evidence, witness), arrest, custody (ticket at the scene, promise to appear in court), charging, preliminary hearing (enough evidence), arraignment (guilty, non-guilty), bail/detention, plea bargaining (DA offers a deal), trial (mistrial, hung jury), sentencing (prison time, fines), appeal (filed right after trial), correctional treatment (prison, fined), released (community service), and finally post release (probation, AA). Each one of these stages is an important part of the Criminal Justice System. I found an article about the arraignment part of a trial.
The article title is "Former Enron executive pleads guilty". It is about a man that was involved in insider trading, acknowledging he was in on a scheme by senior management to manipulate the company's earnings to meet or exceed Wall Street's expectations. His indictment alleges he sold $4.2 million worth of stock while knowing the company was raiding the reserves of its Enron North America subsidiary and disguising the money as income. This article also states that others involved have not been charged. .
The problem with pleading guilty in situations like this is that only one person that was involved is going to get charged for the crime. This man, Dave Delainey, pleaded guilty probably under the influence of his lawyer, and the District Attorney. The DA most likely offered him a lesser sentence if he pleaded guilty to the charges I started above. In the end, he wines up getting screwed over because his accomplices got away with it, and he took the blame. Or he could have gone to trial with a plea of not guilty, and risked the chance of getting a harsher punishment. It's a lose-lose case either way. A good example of a case like this was in the movie, "The Rock". .
Nicolas Cage played a marine, who had just gotten out after so many years.
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