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> In the USA, in 2017, people who knows they're guilty plead not guilty because they have reason to believe that they'll be able to get away with something. Ye
by empath75 9y ago
> In the USA, in 2017, people who knows they're guilty plead not guilty because they have reason to believe that they'll be able to get away with something.
Yes some people do this, but the vast, vast majority of cases never go to trial. Innocent people plead guilty in the us all the time.
- SubiculumCode 9y agoExactly this. The incentives are to plead guilty and take a deal: If plead innocent and found guilty: Life in prison. If plead guilty 10 years, 5 with good behavior. Then take a poor brown person without good legal representation and having a fairly empirically justified belief that the justice system is out to get him, and he woukd be found guilty regardless. So exactly this.
- HeyLaughingBoy 9y agoDid you read what he said? That was literally on the next line!