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Because it costs each innocent victim tens of thousands of dollars to defend themselves. If they are poor, they may have no defense. Next, they are plea bargain
by TuringNYC 7y ago
Because it costs each innocent victim tens of thousands of dollars to defend themselves. If they are poor, they may have no defense. Next, they are plea bargaining to a crime they didn’t commit because that is the only reasonable option left.
- kspacewalk2 7y agoIt doesn't though. Hiring a lawyer was his choice. Location tracker data alone is not enough for him to be even a suspect, just a person of interest. And it's the tracker data that shows police that his passing the house 3 times around the time of the burglary (which is a completely legitimate reason to question someone) is in keeping with his usual routine and thus exonerates him.
- TuringNYC 7y ago>> "and thus exonerates him" How does this exonerate him if he has no lawyer to go thru the procedural efforts? You are right that hiring a lawyer is a choice, in as much as going to prison is a choice.
- 99052882514569 7y ago>How does this exonerate him if he has no lawyer to go thru the procedural efforts? Because police would likely not even contact him in the first place once they see that there's nothing extraordinary about his movements.