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Courteous Invitation to Plea Bargain and the Administration of Criminal Justice in the Fight against Economic and Financial Crime in Nigeria: A Critical Appraisal

Plea bargain is a negotiated agreement which exists between the prosecutor and a Defendant in criminal cases whereby the Defendant pleads guilty to a lesser offence of multiple charges at the commencement of criminal trial in exchange for some concession usually by the prosecutor. This study set out to investigate the relevance of plea bargain in Nigeria's Criminal Justice System to determine whether its practice is really aiding the criminal justice delivery as advocated by the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 (ACJA), or it is rather debasing the jurisprudence of criminal trial on…