Posted on 09/04/2016 1:51:51 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod
or he was being Nifonged. Prosecutorial misconduct is common.
I have a problem with this and I believe it makes a mockery of our treasured legal principal of “innocent until proven guilty.”
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But he was proven guilty. It’s more likely that the DA offered to let the thug off easy due to political pressure from blacks but he was too dumb to take the deal.
Overcharging seems to be a common way to coerce a plea.
In famous cases (eg, Duke Lacrosse, Zimmerman, the Baltimore police officers/Freddie Gray case), prosecutors often come across as incompetent, dishonest, schemers, etc., and are outmanned by competent defense attorneys. You have to wonder how bad they are normally, since they put their A-Teams on high profile cases.
It’s not hard to see why they like forcing poorly represented defendants to plea; it’s easy, quick, low expense, and has a low risk of public embarrassment, plus an appearance of fairness (hey, the defendant agreed to it...). DA’s seem to drop the charges that are complicated. As a result, those looking for injustice can point to convicts serving time for what appears limited offenses, when actually, they were guilty of a large spree. I’ve seen this in local news reports of court action repeatedly — not just TV shows.
” What if they made the same deal to you, except you knew damn well you were innocent?”
He’s not innocent!. You make a bogus argument
Good point
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