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2 unusual facts about Alford plea


Alford plea

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

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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