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 3 and 10 and 15 percent of people behind bars could be innocent of the crimes 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 of 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 theyre afraid of facing you know harsh mandatory minimum sentences and believe that you know the best chance is to just take a plea. Every general you dont know anything about you know the president the politics in county jail you dont know anything so they put you there with these people in this is how th
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
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
Cocaine is since provided guitars and taught music 10 mates at over 50 correctional institutions throughout the United States people think that you know you have a right to a trial and everybody goes to trial and theres the good prosecutor and the defense attorney and they battle it out that i think 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 310 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 of 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
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