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Originally Posted by fredr123
Should have said "What if". I have no idea how the talk between the defence and Crown went before trial, of course. I was asking hypothetically. If he did go to the Crown looking for a guilty plea in return for some leniency, we might never know.
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As far as I know, unless you can get a lowering of the charge there is no longer any benefit to pleading guilty as far as sentencing goes. So defendants are going to court and pleading not guilty as a guilty plea gets them nothing.