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2 unusual facts about Alford plea


Alford plea

Supreme Court Justice Byron White wrote the decision for the majority.

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Legal scholar Jim Drennan, an expert on the court system at the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told the Winston-Salem Journal in a 2007 interview that the ability to use this form of guilty plea as an option in courts had a far-reaching effect throughout the United States.



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