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 every joe 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 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
As an american citizen you dont have to be a murderer or a rapist or a thief to be arrested. If you call the police in an emergency and find yourself arrested just because the officer doesnt like you. My strongest memory my mom is she was very into teaching sharing. Love to each other how to put my own life on the line to try to just say my moms had i known anything like this was going to happen. It was a day just like any other day. I went over to my parents house normally when i went over my mom went right on the on the front porch to greet me. That they she didnt come to the door i was able to see her on the floor and she had been stabbed him beaten and left for dead. Nose freaking out. Right about iran. Right now r r r r r r r r i was hysterical and i was yelling and screaming at the paramedics to hurry up and get her to the hospital so the doctors could do something to save her life. The police choke hold of me and him comfort me and put me in the car for my own safety a sense of
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 the 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 you know 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 americas criminal Justice System the reality is that thousands of people. Every year and i did states wind up pleading guilty to crimes they may not have committed because theyre either or railroaded by Police Officers who give them false inform
For mt. Contaminatam, haze and. Weve got poor air quality for the north bay today. Good air quality around fremont, moderate air quality for the rest of us. Were looking at temperatures in the mid70s around the glass fire incident with 17 relative humidity, very dry. Well have a warm day today inland. Near 90 there, with better air quality closer to the water. That sea breeze picks up. Well talk about the cooler days ahead and the rain prospects for ce end of the week. Lethi lof bethesda, maryland where the president is being treated. You can see the crowds of supporters of the president out there with signs, chanting usa out there to cheer him on and wish him well as he recovers from covid19. Now, in the last half hour, the president s doctors provided an update on his condition. His doctors said he continues to improve, although there are ups and downs. But they really were optimistic about how he is doing. The president has been given two doses of remdesivir which is being developed
Everybody welcome to the daily social distancing show. Im trevor noah. Today is thursday, the 17th of september, and heres your quarantine tip of the day if youre planning on finally seeing your older relatives for the first time in months, remember not to eat any of the hard candies they give you. And this is not a covid thing, those things are just gross. Anyway, on tonights show, donald trump divorces half the country. Bill barr says slavery is back, and the coronavirus is getting its own award show. So lets do this, people. Welcome to the daily social distancing show. From trevors couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show with trevor noah. Trevor lets kick things off in barbados, the place with a rich beautiful history you probably wont see because its outside the sandals resort. Although the caribbean island obtained about in 1956, the queen of england is still officially head of state but thats abto change. Queen elizabe