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To: pierrem15
If the plea was extorted by threatening Flynn with indicting his son (as his lawyer has alleged), it's not worth the paper it's written on.

Do you have a legal citation to support this? Every plea deal in a criminal case is signed under the threat of more serious charges, isn't it?

Couldn't the defendant who pleads guilty to manslaughter to avoid a murder charge say the same thing? "This was extortion. I was under duress when I signed that plea deal."

16 posted on 05/13/2020 6:40:54 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And somewhere in the darkness ... the gambler, he broke even.")
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To: Alberta's Child
Couldn't the defendant who pleads guilty to manslaughter to avoid a murder charge say the same thing? "This was extortion. I was under duress when I signed that plea deal."

False analogy. If a defendant were to were allowed to withdraw a guilty plea to manslaughter in a plea agreement, then the prosecution would be allowed to return to the original charge of murder. In this case the DOJ does not want to bring any charges. A judges role is to mediate disputes between litigants. Here there is no dispute; they both want the case dismissed.

19 posted on 05/13/2020 7:24:05 PM PDT by Petrosius
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To: Alberta's Child

You have to have been charged with the crimes to accept a lesser plea. To threaten a family member with arrest to get a plea is simply extortion.


22 posted on 05/13/2020 8:09:51 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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