How Courts Work
Settling Cases
Relatively few lawsuits ever go through the full range of procedures and all the way to trial. Most civil cases are settled by mutual agreement between the parties. A dispute can be settled even before a suit is filed. Once a suit is filed, it can be settled before the trial begins, during the trial, while the jury is deliberating, or even after a verdict is rendered.
A settlement doesn’t usually state that anyone was right or wrong in the case, nor does it have to settle the whole case. Part of a dispute can be settled, with the remaining issues left to be resolved by the judge or jury.
Criminal cases are not settled by the parties in quite the same way civil cases are. However, not every case goes to trial. The government may decide to dismiss a case, or be ordered to do so by a court. The defendant may decide to plead guilty, perhaps as a result of negotiations with the government that result in dismissing some of the charges or recommending leniency in sentencing. Plea bargains are a very important and efficient way to resolve criminal cases.
If you settling, that means you fukked up somewhere. That don’t mean you completely guilty, but that it may in your best interest. Make a baseless claim against me, we going to court, and after I win, I’m counter suing and trying to clean you out for trying me. When I sued my job, they had to settle. It was basically a 0% chance that I would have won in court. But I wasn’t lying and they knew that the case wouldn’t immediately get thrown out. So they would have to spend some money on lawyers to get it thrown out after a while. So they settled. But they had to do that cause it was enough in my claim that would have caused them to have to fight it. That because they fukked up. They had shyt that they could not answer for. That’s what happen with a lot of settlements. The person settling may have been able to beat it. But they wasn’t totally innocent so it cost them some money
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