Opinion ID: 1759329
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Heading: the waiver of parole rights is a valid enforceable contract.

Text: The agreement incorporated within the WAIVER OF PAROLE RIGHTS possesses the traits of most plea bargain agreements. Plea bargain agreements between the State of Mississippi and persons arrested for crimes are negotiated and consummated regularly. Further, those agreements are enforceable as contracts. In recognizing the fact that such agreements are analyzed as contracts, we have previously discussed the contractual qualities of a plea bargain. This Court has recently stated that, [t]he implicit premise ... is that an agreement such as that made by the prosecution and the defendant is enforceable. This premise has ripened into unmistakable law in the context of plea bargaining. There we rely upon a contract model. Wright v. McAdory, 536 So.2d 897, 901 (Miss. 1988), (citing Moore v. State, 242 So.2d 414 (Miss. 1970)).