31.   Once a public defender himself, Lagarde said he came to believe that judges who offered reduced sentences to defendants in exchange for pleading guilty were being unfair.

32.   Prosecutors, under pressure to solve the case, presented perjured testimony of informants who received reduced sentences, which the prosecution failed to disclose.

33.   Providing the authorities with information about other illegal activities is a more common form of cooperation than forfeitures in the quest by defendants for reduced sentences.

34.   Richardson had provided that testimony in exchange for a reduced sentence on unrelated federal drug charges, Karam said.

35.   Schlei said that Hill, in return for a reduced sentence, implicated him.

36.   Some judges have said that promising a defendant a reduced sentence, no matter how common, could encourage false testimony.

37.   St. Onge says Trifero may seek a reduced sentence in return for volunteering as a consultant to the institutions whose computers he penetrated.

38.   That may include a petitions for a reduced sentence, parole or a new trial and seeking a presidential pardon.

39.   The Air Force said the airman volunteered the names of other homosexuals to get a reduced sentence.

40.   The prosecutor had briefly suggested a reduced sentence if he admitted to the rape, but the offer was withdrawn.