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What On Earth Happened In That Courtroom?

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

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The Art of Plea Agreements

The terms of art are agreed upon standard, let's say sequences of words that appear in multiple documents and do so because they are understood to mean a specific thing to everyone in every setting. In most cases, the agreement is perfectly clear; it wouldn't be fair to everybody else who makes these deals with these terms of art. So if you think about in your own experience, if somebody if a judge were to ask you, what's the immunity. Understanding here, in most cases, you'd be asking for trouble."

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