(2/x) “it’s not that we are unaware of the fact that defendants take pleas for a great many unsavory reasons…it’s that the truly innocent are outliers. It’s that the wrongs of plea bargaining are very much wrong, but so too is the fantasy that there is some vast number of pure
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(3/x) and innocent defendants caught in this plea bargaining nightmare. As Murray Kempton once wrote “there they go again, framing the guilty.”
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(4/x) “Cops lie? Sure they do, but can we prove it? Can you risk it? AND before anyone gets teary-eyed at the thought of the officer fudging the significant, but tangential details, let’s not forget that you did have the murder weapon in your car, just as your co-Defendant who
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(5/x) ratted you out said you did.” The outcome of trial can be worse than the plea bargain esp “when the testimony reveals that our client isn’t just guilty of the crime charged, but a particularly bad person who also happens to be guilty.”
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