Exactly 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 beha

Exactly 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.