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Old 04-07-2015, 02:11 PM  
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Originally Posted by rogueteens View Post
I'm not up on American law but if he entered a plea, then isn't he basically admitting to doing it?
Admitting doesn't mean that he actually did it. It is called making a deal for a reason; it is a deal. They should be more focused on finding the guilty one, than just throwing someone into jail, or making deals whatsoever.

I sign this:

"Plea bargaining is criticized, particularly outside the United States, on the grounds that its close relationship with rewards, threats and coercion potentially endangers the correct legal outcome.

Author Martin Yant discusses the use of coercion in plea bargaining:

Even when the charges are more serious, prosecutors often can still bluff defense attorneys and their clients into pleading guilty to a lesser offense. As a result, people who might have been acquitted because of lack of evidence, but also who are in fact truly innocent, will often plead guilty to the charge. Why? In a word, fear. And the more numerous and serious the charges, studies have shown, the greater the fear. That explains why prosecutors sometimes seem to file every charge imaginable against defendants."

Plea bargain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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