СПОРАЗУМ О ПРИЗНАЊУ КРИВИЦЕ – PRO ET CONTRA
PLEA BARGAINING – PRO ET CONTRA

Summary/Abstract: A plea bargain is an agreement in a criminal case between the prosecutor and the defendant, under which the defendant pleads guilty, usually to a lesser charge or to the original criminal charge, while the prosecutor recommends a lighter sentence. It was introduced into Serbian legal system in 2009, by the Act amending the Code of Criminal Procedure. The first attempt to bring this type of agreement into Serbian law was fruitless, as the piece of legislation introducing it never came into force. The author calls attention to the arguments in favor of and against plea bargaining from the comparative perspective, and weighs the new rules of Serbian criminal procedure in respect of plea bargaining against the well settled rules in other legal systems.

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