Emails between the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Rascoe Dean, the Nashville-based criminal defense attorney representing Kilmar Abrego Garcia, appear to reveal the alleged human smuggler was willing to accept a plea deal that would have seen him plead guilty to one count of human smuggling in exchange for dismissal of his conspiracy charge. 

Submitted as exhibits to the prosecutors' latest filing, the emails show that Acting U.S. Attorney Robert E. McGuire first raised the possibility of a plea agreement on July 13, when he suggested an agreement that would allow Abrego Garcia's attorneys to make their own sentencing requests to the judge, in addition to those made by prosecutors, in exchange for his guilty plea.

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