This is the traditional, and accurate, complaint of the black community, cops haul them in and the prosecutors just overcharge them and force a plea bargain. That is what makes the attack mode so galling. I agree that minority defendants have often been the victim of this conduct. The real beef is that these defendants have the ability to exposre it.
This might just be the most perceptive thing I've read all day. On the other hand, I've known public defenders who arranged those pleas, and they believed their clients to be guilty of offenses worse than the plea. Sometimes people plea to things they haven't done to avoid prosecution for greater offenses they have done.
It is obvious, however, that the black community, rightly or wrongly, believes that rich people get off because they can afford good lawyers.
There is one more thing. I have an attorney nephew who paid for his house after suing our city for a false and malicious prosecution. It was a total frame up, even worse than the Duke case.