Kennedy pleaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

Kennedy plea (複数形 Kennedy pleas)

1. (US, law) A plea in criminal court in which the defendant does not admit guilt, but concedes that the state has sufficient evidence to obtain a conviction.
   • 2014, WSAZ News Staff, "Jerel Garner Enters "Kennedy Plea" in Donte Newsome's Shooting Death", on WSAZ.com, 9 Sept. 2014:

     The Charleston man whose conviction for the shooting death of a former Marshall University football player was overturned, has entered a "Kennedy Plea", rather than go through a second trial... In a Kennedy Plea, the person does not accept guilt, but accepts the punishment for the crime.

   • 2014, Wendy Holdren, "Don Dicken enters Kennedy plea to voluntary manslaughter", in The Register Herald, 2 Dec. 2014:

     To avoid a lengthy trial and possibly a harsher sentence, 34-year-old Don Douglas Dicken entered a Kennedy plea to the voluntary manslaughter of 46-year-old Glenn L. Farrow... When a defendant enters a Kennedy plea, he or she does not admit committing the criminal act, but believes a plea deal is in his or her best interest instead of taking the case to trial.

   • 2016, Courtney Hessler, "Man sentenced to 30 years in 2014 armed robbery ring", in The Herald Dispatch, 2 Feb. 2016:

     Williams previously entered a Kennedy plea to second-degree robbery. Williams denied he knew anything about the crime and was not a lookout, as accused...

同意語

• Alford plea