A bill to limit plea agreements and cooperative agreements that promise reduced sentences or other benefits in exchange for cooperation by drug kingpins and others charged with extremely serious offenses.

Summary

Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit the court from approving any agreement between the Government and an offender who is (or could have been) charged with or convicted of a specified serious crime (including crimes of violence, drug trafficking crimes, killings of specified Federal officers and employees, and certain offenses involving controlled substances) under which the Government agrees to a request for a sentence of any particular length or for a reduction in sentence or under which any other benefit is to be made available to the offender, in exchange for the offender's cooperation in providing information or evidence that may lead to the conviction of another person of an offense other than one of such serious crimes. Directs the Attorney General to: (1) personally review and approve any such agreement; and (2) provide to the judiciary committees, within ten days, notice of the proposed agreement, including the name of the offender with whom the agreement is to be made.

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 25 March 1992

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