SC updates plea bargaining rules - BusinessWorld Online

SC updates plea bargaining rules - BusinessWorld Online

THE SUPREME COURT (SC) ruled that prosecutors in drug cases must raise all their objections at once when an accused seeks to plead guilty to a lesser offense or risk forfeiting those objections entirely. The decision stems from the case of a man who was convicted by a Dumaguete court for the illegal possession of drug paraphernalia. He had initially been charged with both selling and possessing methamphetamine, but moved to enter a plea bargain …