A reduction in the class of a felony, or prison term, is at the center of its namesake bargaining..
Autreforis convict and autreforis acquit are two types of the peremptory version of this.  In North Carolina V Alford, the defendant used it to avoid execution. That variety, now named for him, is differentiated from nolo contendere, an action also of this type. This term also is part of a namesake colloquy, during which the judge listens to an allocution by the defendant. A reduction in the class of a felony, or prison term, is at the center of its namesake bargaining.. For ten points name this action, which at arriagnment involves answering a judge's question with "guilty" or "not guilty."
Autreforis convict and autreforis acquit are two types of the peremptory version of this.  
{pleading} (accept word forms, do not accept {pleaing guilty}, or {pleaing innocent})