[chaosagent]

I understand how Flynn got there.

So if a person pleads guilty because of a gun held to his head, literally or figuratively, and then he is later found to be innocent of the charges, he can be prosecuted for perjury because he pled guilty initially?

[William Tell]

I believe that Flynn was entitled to plead nolo contendere which means that he does not intend to contest the charge but also is not admitting guilt. I’d be pretty confident that the prosecutors wouldn’t permit that but instead insisted on the guilty plea, knowing that they had coerced that plea.

This behavior ought to result in prison for the prosecutors. They basically suborned perjury through coercion.