All articles tagged with #plea bargain
Pregnant teenager Bella Culley was unexpectedly released from a Georgian prison after her prosecutors altered her plea deal, reducing her sentence amid her pregnancy and circumstances of coercion, and she expressed relief and happiness upon release.
Sherri Papini, who admitted to faking her own kidnapping and lying to the FBI, has been released from federal prison and will be overseen at a community confinement center. Papini went missing in 2016 and was found three weeks later with self-inflicted injuries. Her story unraveled when investigators found male DNA on her clothes belonging to an ex-boyfriend she was staying with during the time she claimed to be missing. Papini pleaded guilty in 2022 and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. She has now been released to a community confinement center in Sacramento.
New England Patriots linebacker Jack Jones is set to be arraigned on Tuesday on gun charges after two guns were found in his carry-on luggage at Logan Airport in Boston. Jones is charged with multiple counts of possession of a concealed weapon, possession of ammunition without a firearm identification card, unlawful possession of a firearm, carrying a loaded firearm, and possession of a large-capacity feeding device. The maximum penalties for the charges include 2.5 years in jail or five years in state prison on each of the concealed gun counts. Jones is in the second season of his four-year, $4.4 million rookie contract.
Ted Kaczynski, the Harvard-trained math professor who became known as the "Unabomber" for his deadly bombing campaign, has died at the age of 81. Kaczynski had been serving eight life sentences after pleading guilty in 1998 for sending mail bombs that killed three people and wounded 23 others from 1978 to 1995. He was found unresponsive in his cell at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, and was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. Kaczynski's family claimed his writings reflected the mind of a paranoid schizophrenic, and a federal prison psychiatrist agreed, leading to a plea bargain that saved him from the death penalty.
One of the judges in the trial of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested a non-binding "mediation" process to resolve the case, which began three years ago and is unlikely to end before 2028-2029. The judge has asked the state prosecution and defense teams to consider the idea, which could potentially lead to a plea bargain. Lawyers for Netanyahu, who is facing one count of bribery and three counts of fraud and breach of trust, did not rule out the idea. The attorney general will need to decide if she wants to pursue this option in the next few days.