ALFORD PLEA Author’s Name Institute Affiliation An Alford plea is also known as Kennedy plea, Alford doctrine, and Alford guilty plea. It is a form of a plea in the United States judicial system whereby a suspect denies of any wrongdoing and proclaims that he is innocent. Nevertheless, the suspect believes that the prosecution has enough evidence to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he is guilty of what he is being charged off. The guilty plea was named after Henry Alford in 1970 in the Carolina v. Alford (Blume and Helm, 2014). This was after he was charged with murder. The prosecution in his case announced that they intended to ask the jury for a death sentence. However, they offered him a...
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