A trial and everybody goes to trial and theres the good prosecutor and the and the defense attorney and they battle it out that is the way it works the way it works is the prosecutors stack up the charges on you and force you to plead guilty to a lesser charge to keep from doing life or double life or triple life people dont get trials what they get is a deal people suggest that anywhere between you know 3 or 10 and 15 percent of people behind bars could be innocent of the crimes for which they were charged 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 the United States 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 corners confessions or because they are afraid of facing you know harsh mandatory mi
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 they are 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 0 you dont know anything about you know the prison politics in county jail you dont know anything so they put you 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 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 a high 90 percentile convict. Including those plea bargains. Because of course from a legal standpoint we know that nobody would ever plead guilty to something they didnt
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A prosecutor raises his conviction rate so prosecutors typically have in the high 90 percentile 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 in exchange for a youth already sounds we went back into trial we entered the plea and i went down for a 90 day observation at the youth already in norwalk the challenge is if youre innocent and you plead guilty you better be a good liar you go down there you talk to psychologists and they ask you to do it or you have to say yes because it has to be consistent with everything well how do you do it i mean i didnt have adequate answers for these questions so they didnt they didnt buy it in a sense you know rightly so and they sent a report that was positive and negative report back to the judge. I didnt realize that you 3 would be able to help you and so will allow you to take back your guilty
Investigate our sales. This guy good job to give the stories or anything like them just to give the system that has no checks and balances you who is shaking ya know i believe in internal affairs should be separate from the Police Department there is no way that a Police Department can investigate themselves currently there are no independent organizations whose job it is to investigate Police Misconduct and theres no oversight of prosecutors either. Prosecutorial misconduct dizzee major factor of Wrongful Convictions just a Single Thread that runs through almost all of the Wrongful Conviction cases Jeff Deskovic has a masters in criminal justice specializing in Wrongful Convictions hes also a survivor of prosecutorial misconduct i spent 16 years in prison. Can go to 17. Emerged at 32. 00 jeff eventually won a lawsuit against putnam county. New york conviction which enabled him to start his own foundation the founder and executive director of the dust of it but just as theres no deterr