Michelle alexander is a civil rights lawyer stanford law professor and the author of the new jim crow one of the most highly acclaimed studies americas criminal Justice System the reality is that thousands of people. Every year and i had states who wind up pleading guilty to crimes they may not have committed because theyre the theyre railroaded by Police Officers who give them false information or horrors confessions or because theyre afraid of facing you know harsh mandatory minimum sentences and believe that you know the best chance is to just take a plea using every joe you dont know anything about you know the prison politics in county jail you dont know anything so they put you in there with these people in this is how they force you to take deals the u. S. Justice system just like any Justice System in the world. A system where 95 percent of the cases are resolved by plea bargain you know its no longer a trial system its a plea bargain system the whole purpose of plea bargains f
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A plea using the average joe you dont know anything about you know the prison politics in county jail you dont know anything so they put you in there with these people in this is how they force you to take deals the u. S. Justice system just like any Justice System in the world a system where 95 percent of the cases are resolved by plea bargain you know its no longer a trial system its a plea bargain system the whole purpose of plea bargains from the perspective of a prosecutor raises his conviction rate so prosecutors typically have in the high 90 percent conviction rates including those plea bargains. Because of course from a legal standpoint we know that nobody would ever plead guilty to something they didnt do and so we agree that i would plead guilty and exchange for you 40 sums we went back in the trial we had the plea and i went down for a 90 day observation youth already in norwalk the challenge is. If youre innocent and you create guilty you better be a good liar you go down t
News station. Now with breaking news. Breaking news out of Sacramento Police responding to a deadly shooting at a mall on this very busy shopping day. Thanks for joining u. S. Attorney and im ken wayne and im Vicki Liviakis the shooting was reported about 7 oclock tonight at arden fair mall. At least one person was killed another suffered life threatening injuries. The suspect is still at large. Police say this was not an active shooter situation and there is currently no active threat. We are still working with our sister station in sacramento to bring you the latest details and well pass them along as soon as they come in. We first brought you this story on our kron 4 mobile app make sure to download it to get the latest breaking news sent straight to your smart device. To another big story that were following for you tonight covid19 cases are skyrocketing across the state. According to the state Health Department there were 12,000 new cases and 54 deaths in just the past 24 hours. T