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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 ....
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 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 bargain. 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 you 40 sums we went ba ....
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 beca ....
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 bargai ....
By the Gettysburg College civil war institute. Big thank you mr. Carmichael. I am also of says i am a director of the civil war institute. It is my pleasure this afternoon to introduce Elizabeth Van lew who is the associate director for civil war history. Awesome williams professor of American History at the university of virginia. Thankfully, she is not a hockey buff. At least i do not believe she is. Oh gosh, she said go caps. What has happened to American Sports . I do not know. I never thought in a civil war conference people would be dying about hockey, but such is life. Elizabeth is a published scholar. We need to be counted, white women. Published by the university of the North Carolina press 1998. ....