Can a defendant avoid a harsher sentence if he accepts a plea bargain?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Ruiz, E072303 (Cal. App. 2020):
sentence violates rules which would have required the imposition of a more lenient sentence, yet the defendant avoided a potentially harsher sentence by entering into the plea bargain, it may be implied that the defendant waived any rights under such rules by choosing to accept the plea bargain." (People v. Couch (1996) 48 Cal.App.4th 1053, 1057.)
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