If they accept the plea, the case won't go in front of a jury, but they'll receive a shorter prison sentence than they'd get if a jury did convict them.
The United States Constitution instructed a grand jury to decide whether criminal cases proceeded, required a jury to try all crimes, except impeachment, and provided for juries in civil cases as well.
By an understanding with the presiding justice their case was to be transferred to the session of the District Court, where the preponderance of peasants on the jury would insure their conviction.
It effectively said all those cases like Val Johnson's back to civil court so they could be heard by juries instead of them all being lumped together in one big bankruptcy case.
如 Val Johnson 件, 都将回到民事法庭, 这样它们就可以由审团审理, 而不是将它们全部集中在一个大破产件中。