[MayflowerMadam]

“Ellis tearfully pleaded guilty to felony charges of aiding and abetting false statements in Fulton County, Georgia,”

So when someone pleads guilty, and he’s not, is that technically perjury?

I’m not a big Jenna Ellis fan, but she was not guilty of this.

[Jonty30]

Prosecutors will generally offer comparatively light sentences for a quick plea rather than a trial.

Would you rather be suspended for three years, even though it still means you can do something else, or would you risk jail for five years?

[vivenne]

Some people said Michael Flynn was guilty of perjury for pleading guilty to spare his son and then saying later he wasn’t guilty, which he wasn’t. Jenna plead guilty because she didn’t have the money to fight the charges. So, I guess if you are poor you have to plead guilty to end the prosecution and the hemorrhaging of funds.

[mmichaels1970]

So when someone pleads guilty, and he’s not, is that technically perjury?

Nope. Check out what an “Alford Plea” is. You can plead guilty while mantaining your innocence but conceding you will likely be convicted at trial.

Plea bargaining is an extremely coercive process meant to chalk up prosecution wins while circumventing a constitutional right to trial.

Dangle the likelyhood of years behind bars if losing at trial with “just getting it over with” and many will choose the later. Guilty or not.

[joesbucks]

She chose her poison. No one forced her.