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You very much, and welcome to our 13th virtual signature events of our 35th season. I wanted to thank all of you for joining us, we have with this today and number of special guests that i would like to mention the investor from singapore, we also have members of economic members of detroit, we also have members of economic of new york, and we also have a number of people who are members and our members guest. Thank you all for joining us. Today were going to have a Congressional Panel that are going to have medical panel. Our congressional pana, i will talk about us number of subjects including the recent attacks on the us capital, the political environment, security measures, and the way for to national unity. The two members that we have are very honored that are joining us today Debbie Debbie dingell brooks in the 12 district of michigan and shes a democrat and tom re ....
You very much, and welcome to our 13th virtual signature events of our 35th season. I wanted to thank all of you for joining us, we have with this today and number of special guests that i would like to mention the investor from singapore, we also have members of economic members of detroit, we also have members of economic of new york, and we also have a number of people who are members and our members guest. Thank you all for joining us. Today were going to have a Congressional Panel that are going to have medical panel. Our congressional pana, i will talk about us number of subjects including the recent attacks on the us capital, the political environment, security measures, and the way for to national unity. The two members that we have are very honored that are joining us today Debbie Debbie dingell brooks in the 12 district of michigan and shes a democrat and tom re ....
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 ....
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 y ....