German Bundestag Passes Plea Bargaining Law
posted by Jenia Turner
Germany was once known as a “land without plea bargaining.” Those days are now long gone.
On May 28, the German Bundestag passed a law amending the German Code of Criminal Procedure to regulate plea bargaining. The legislation ratifies a practice that developed informally more than two decades ago. As bargaining became more common in the late 1980s and 1990s, courts intervened to set broad requirements for the practice. The recent legislation largely codifies these requirements. But there are also some important departures and other provisions that are interesting from a comparative perspective.
July 16, 2009 at 9:30 am
Tags: German Criminal Procedure Code, Germany, plea bargaining
Posted in: Criminal Procedure, International & Comparative Law
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