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it's pretty standard in the US for the district attourney to offer a plea bargian of parole in exchange for pleading guilty. This results in high win rate for t
by solotronics 9y ago
it's pretty standard in the US for the district attourney to offer a plea bargian of parole in exchange for pleading guilty. This results in high win rate for the attourney and they look at it as most of these parolees end up making a mistake during parole and going in for longer sentances.
- dragonwriter 9y agoUnless some jurisdiction uses “parole” to include what “probation” usually means, that's incorrect, and even if that's true in some jurisdiction it's not in Louisiana, where (as is generally the case) you can be sentenced to probation, or released from a prison sentence on parole. So, as a parolee, he had previously been sentenced to prison and released under supervision.
- ams6110 9y agoIf you're out on parole. you're effectively on probation though.
- dragonwriter 9y agoYes, but you don't get parole as a plea bargain, as suggested in GP.
- Feniks 9y agoYeah an actual trial with a jury is expensive. The DA wants to avoid that hassle. Look most people in the US can scrape together 50k for bail and a decent lawyer who tells them exactly how to handle the prosecution. The people who can't are SoL. The burden of poverty.