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The Impact of the New South Wales Sentencing Indication Scheme on Plea Rates and Case Delay

Don Weatherburn, Bronwyn Lind

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The New South Wales Parliament passed legislation in 1992 allowing the Chief Judge of the District Court to introduce a 'sentence indication' scheme. The scheme provided for an accused person committed for trial in the District Court to seek an indication of the sentence that would be imposed if a guilty plea is entered with an to obtain earlier and more pleas of guilty.

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The New South Wales Parliament passed legislation in 1992 allowing the Chief Judge of the District Court to introduce a 'sentence indication' scheme. The scheme provided for an accused person committed for trial in the District Court to seek an indication of the sentence that would be imposed if a guilty plea is entered with an to obtain earlier and more pleas of guilty.

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The New South Wales Parliament passed legislation in 1992 allowing the Chief Judge of the District Court to introduce a 'sentence indication' scheme. The scheme provided for an accused person committed for trial in the District Court to seek an indication of the sentence that would be imposed if a guilty plea is entered with an to obtain earlier and more pleas of guilty.

Key concepts: Plea, Parliament, Law, Sentence, Legislation, Project commissioning, Scheme (mathematics), Political science

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