Does pleading guilty to a lesser charge of sexual assault constitute pleading guilty?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from The People v. Burciaga, F057834, No. MCR021365A (Cal. App. 2010):
client may have committed only a lesser offense, is not akin to pleading guilty to that offense"]; People v. Jackson (1980) 28 Cal.3d 264, 293 ["[G]ood trial tactics demanded complete candor' with the jury"].)
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