The city, as the capital of the comarca Huerta de Murcia is called Europe's orchard due to its long agricultural tradition and its fruit, vegetable, and flower production and exports. 1 Geography 1.1 Segura River.
With an Alford plea, the defendant -- typically only with the court's permission -- accepts all the ramifications of a guilty verdict (i.e., punishment) without first attesting to having committed the crime. The rare plea serves as a final resort to avoid trial or a severe sentence for those who are indeed guilty.
1, 35-39 (2004) (noting that the American plea negotiation is essentially an outgrowth of its adversarial system of justice, as opposed to an inquisitorial framework, whose aim is resolution and settlement of conflicts).