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Plea bargaining

  • 18 Dec 2025

    MOHD SHAN RIL BIN LIM

    Citation
    TB-83RS-114-12/2025 (Mahkamah Majistret)
    Court
    Magistrates' Court
    Case number
    TB-83RS-114-12/2025 (Mahkamah Majistret)

    Court upheld conviction and sentence of 5 years imprisonment from date of arrest and one stroke of rotan because the sentence is within statutory limits under s380 Kanun Keseksaan, was imposed after considering guilty plea, mitigation and aggravating factors including antecedents and public interest; no legal error or manifest excess found to warrant appellate interference.

  • 9 Oct 2025

    1. ) KHALID REDZA BIN SHUIB 2. ) NURSHAFWANI BINTI KHALID REDZA

    Citation
    NA-45B-4-06/2023 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
    Court
    High Court
    Case number
    NA-45B-4-06/2023 (Mahkamah Tinggi)

    The court accepted the accused's guilty pleas to reduced offences under section 304(a) but afforded limited mitigation because the pleas followed written representations resulting in charge reductions; given the aggravating factors (abuse of vulnerable victims, concealment of bodies), the need to protect public interest and absence of transactional nexus between the two offences, the appropriate sentences are 15 years for Case No.7 and 17 years for Case No.4, to run consecutively.

  • 9 Sept 2025

    NAGARAJAN A/L ALAGASAN [ ]

    Citation
    W-05(M)-96-03/2022 (Mahkamah Rayuan)
    Court
    M
    Case number
    W-05(M)-96-03/2022 (Mahkamah Rayuan)

    The Court set aside the death sentences and substituted convictions for culpable homicide under section 299 punishable under section 304(a) read with section 34 of the Penal Code; having weighed the facts, mitigation and sentencing trends the Court imposed a global sentence of 12 years imprisonment on each appellant, effective from date of arrest (17 August 2017).

  • 24 Aug 2025

    MOHD ALI BIN JAAFAR

    Citation
    KA-45-17-05/2022 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
    Court
    High Court
    Case number
    KA-45-17-05/2022 (Mahkamah Tinggi)

    Court accepted that the accused's guilty pleas were voluntary and informed but prioritized public interest and deterrence given the substantial quantity of methamphetamine (153.18g) and additional heroin possession; having weighed mitigation (first offender status, health, family) against aggravating factors and statutory ranges, court sentenced the accused to 8 years imprisonment and 10 strokes for the substituted methamphetamine possession charge and 2 years imprisonment and 3 strokes for the heroin possession charge, to run concurrently; whipping may be withheld if medical confirmation sho…

  • 11 Dec 2024

    VLADIMIR COVALENCO

    Citation
    KD-62-10-07/2024 (Mahkamah Sesyen)
    Court
    Sessions Court
    Case number
    KD-62-10-07/2024 (Mahkamah Sesyen)

    The court found the plea bargain related to sentence, was validly entered into under section 172C CPC, and the accused voluntarily pleaded guilty; the court was bound to give effect to the agreed sentence in Enclosure B and therefore convicted the accused and sentenced him to five years imprisonment commencing 2 July 2024, with ancillary orders as agreed.

  • 26 Sept 2024

    RAVEEN A/L KUHAN

    Citation
    WA-83D-8895-08/2023 (Mahkamah Majistret)
    Court
    Magistrates' Court
    Case number
    WA-83D-8895-08/2023 (Mahkamah Majistret)

    Having weighed mitigating factors (first offender, youth, family dependants, low quantity of methamphetamine 9.35g, employment, medical history, guilty plea) against public interest, and having regard to statutory amendments enabling Compulsory Attendance Orders and relevant authorities, the court held that the mandatory minimum custodial term was not appropriate in this case and lawfully substituted custody with a Compulsory Attendance Order (PKW) of 4 hours daily for 12 months, secured by a RM2500 bond with one surety; failure to comply will expose the accused to the original custodial sent…

  • 7 Aug 2023

    AW YU HUI

    Citation
    WA-41S-7-05/2023 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
    Court
    High Court
    Case number
    WA-41S-7-05/2023 (Mahkamah Tinggi)

    Reduction of imprisonment from 12 months (s420 PC) and 8 months (s468 PC) to 3 months each was lawful because s172G CPC entitles an accused who pleads guilty before trial to be sentenced to not more than half the maximum term; subsection 172D(2) (which would preserve statutory minima) is inapplicable absent a plea bargaining disposition under s172C; the guilty plea, payment of fines and lack of detailed prosecution facts warranted reduction; consecutive effect and whipping order were maintained as appropriate.

  • 9 Dec 2020

    SYAMSUL FAZWAN BIN ABDUL AZIZ

    Citation
    AA-41H-36-11/2019 (Mahkamah Tinggi)
    Court
    High Court
    Case number
    AA-41H-36-11/2019 (Mahkamah Tinggi)

    s.172G CPC applies to any accused who pleads guilty at any time before commencement of trial irrespective of plea bargaining; the word 'shall' is mandatory in this context so the court must sentence in accordance with s.172D(1)(c)(ii) meaning imprisonment cannot exceed half the maximum provided by law (subject to exceptions in s.172D(2) and (3)); magistrate's sentence that exceeded that cap was unlawful and is set aside and substituted accordingly.

  • 17 Jul 2020

    Tengku Adnan bin Tengku Mansor

    Citation
    05(L)-18-02/2020(W) (Mahkamah Persekutuan)
    Court
    L
    Case number
    05(L)-18-02/2020(W) (Mahkamah Persekutuan)

    The Federal Court held that the Court of Appeal misapplied the law and that there was no real danger of bias warranting recusal. A trial judge is not required to recuse merely because a co-accused pleaded guilty and was convicted and sentenced; the guilty plea is not automatically admissible against another accused and impartiality can be maintained. The 'real danger of bias' test requires a real possibility of bias, not an unduly low threshold.

  • 12 Feb 2020

    Tengku Adnan Bin Tengku Mansor

    Citation
    W-05-407-09/2019 (Mahkamah Rayuan)
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    W-05-407-09/2019 (Mahkamah Rayuan)

    Appellate court allowed the appeal and ordered a retrial before another judge because objectively there was a real danger of bias: the trial judge had accepted the co-accused's guilty plea and considered the facts and exhibits which could not be treated as effaced from his mind, creating a real possibility of unfair regard against the appellant despite the judge's declaration of impartiality.