I disagree primarily due to the way plea deals are handled. You can be innocent of any wrongdoing and still have to take a deal that results in jail time to avo

I disagree primarily due to the way plea deals are handled. You can be innocent of any wrongdoing and still have to take a deal that results in jail time to avoid losing the rest of your life. If there is no charge, there is no need to plea. And, if there is no charge (and therefore probably no arrests being made) there is no looking for evidence of some other thing. (Imagine someone arrested for Marijuana, but it turns out they also happen to have some party drugs somewhere. Game over.) That said, these laws are complex. [0]This is a felony scoresheet from Florida that shows how things get tallied up. Looking closely you can see the extreme impact of plea deals in sentencing, and the way multiple charges get added together. [0]http://199.250.30.111/pub/scoresheet/cpc_manual.pdf http://199.250.30.111/pub/scoresheet/cpc_manual.pdf