Deferred Prosecutions and Guilty Pleas

Published for NC Criminal Law on August 20, 2015.

Local procedures vary when it comes to deferred prosecutions. In general, there’s nothing wrong with that; the district attorney has broad discretion in the deferred prosecution realm. Lately, though, several people have asked me a particular question related to deferred prosecution procedure: Does the defendant actually plead guilty when the deferral is entered? At the risk of oversimplifying ... Read more

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