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
Being counted 8 to 10 times i know or sold ballots with a return address filled cells and since no. Im from spawns a further angered by accusations of massive Mainstream Media bias as take 50 and briefings are leaked to a conservative group. Ive been on these calls theres no diversity of opinion nobody objects nobody challenges. Very well well continue watching the weekly here on r. T. International printing you all the latest along with our roundup of the stories that shaped the week its great to have you with us. Now 1st to france where demonstrators tore through the streets for a 2nd consecutive weekend facing fines of vehicles and flushing shops and banks its over a security bill to stop the public from filming Police Officers responded with tear gas more than 60 protesters were arrested nationwide and several Police Injured National Defense he reports. Well you can probably see behind me its already getting pretty clear in paris was burning and you can hear the tear gas thats bein
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
Described as a messy and chaotic 1st president ial debate. Respectfully to each other. Im not here to call others lies Everybody Knows hes a liar theres nothing smart about you joe what you should. Know your number 2. Good morning thanks for joining us here on our team to. The u. N. Security council last call for an immediate end to clashes currently gripping the borders of asia and europe the nations of armenia and azerbaijan are into a 3rd day of conflict and whats the worst flare up of a longstanding territorial dispute since the signing of a truce in 1904. On sunday with both still laying claim to the new goal in a car or a back or region these are exclusive to. Just filmed by an arctic. And you can see parts of a drone that was shot down by i mean armed forces during fighting cruise so far the only media granted access to the area or thirtys. As a report from the site filmed with the night vision camera right now were between the positions of the Armenian Army which is over there
Doubt after donald trump contracts coronavirus. And environmental groups that warn of a pollution disaster in russias far east as a probe was launched into toxic chemicals killing sea life. Broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our International Im john thomas glad to have you with us as we recap the weeks top stories with our Weekly Program right now we start with the conflict between armenia and azerbaijan which has entered a 2nd week the disputed region of not gotten the kind of block is being relentlessly shelled these are some of the latest pictures from the local capital showing burning cars residential buildings have been hit across the city as well and the number of casualties is so far unclear earlier in the week a hospital was hit in an airstrike several residential buildings were also badly damaged. Hostilities are now expanding beyond the disputed territory with several towns in azerbaijan bombed the city of ganja came under fire earlier on sunday by j