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| Subject: On ANCAPS Today: OZschwitz gulag special: Just plead guilty and get 40% off - Hurry, offer ends... Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:32 am | |
| Criminals who plead guilty within six weeks of their arrest could get a 40 percent reduction in their prison sentence under a proposal aimed at reducing the backlog at courts in one Australian state.
South Australian Attorney-General John Rau said Tuesday that late guilty pleas were a major contributor to delays and inefficiencies in the trial process.
"I am concerned by the substantial number of defendants who plead not guilty initially and are committed for trial, only to plead guilty later in proceedings, often literally at the doors of court, or on the first day of trial," Rau told reporters.
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