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This claim disregards those who take a plea deal because they believe they cannot win a federal criminal case, which is a superset of those who are actually inn
by tadfisher 6y ago
This claim disregards those who take a plea deal because they believe they cannot win a federal criminal case, which is a superset of those who are actually innocent of their accused crimes.
- ryanwhitney 6y agoYeah. Oddly enough, the aforementioned “97%” stat brought me to an Innocence Project page[1] which leads with: > In nearly 11% of the nation’s 349 DNA exoneration cases, innocent people entered guilty pleas. Obviously a small and biased sample group, but guilty plea ≠ guilty. [1] https://innocenceproject.org/guilty-plea-campaign-announcement/ https://innocenceproject.org/guilty-plea-campaign-announceme... (2017)