plea deal

During the plea deal, there are negotiations beyond the wording of the deal involving investigators, the client and attorneys where information, names, and potential suspicions come up.

“During a plea deal, there is much more than the simple wording in the plea deal that takes place. There is other negotiations that happens between the investigators, the client, and the attorney and during those investigations, there is names that come up, there is information given, etcetera and during that negotiations...”

A person can be identified as a suspect through plea negotiations but not named in the plea deal and still appear in Regulation 10.6 proceedings, affecting how the legal team must deal with such a suspect.

“Let us say you are a suspect that you connived with General X to do A, B, and C. General X does not appear, for instance, in the plea deal. It is discussed there, there is questions made, there is recordings made, but General X appeared in the Regulation 10.6. Now, for me to deal with whether he is a suspect or not... I need to know what was discussed during the plea negotiations...”