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It’s very easy to not be convicted under the law when you cut a deal with one court where no other court can even attempt to convict you.

• gruez 5y ago
  94% of federal criminal cases end in a plea bargain. It's not at all unusual.
  • UncleMeat 5y ago
    Most of those are because the defendant is in a position of weakness and the courts are busy, not because the defendant is able to cut a deal that lets them live out the rest of their lives outside of prison and with billions in the bank.
  • avs733 5y ago
    a plea bargain is by rule a conviction. It is simply an alternative route to one. A plea bargain is where a bargain is struck between some prosecuting authority and the accused wherein the accused pleads guilty in exchange for some nominally lesser punishment. WHat happened here is one plea bargain that included (but should not have included by any rational definition of justice) a global bar on the accused being prosecuted for any other crimes. See if you can find an example of that logic being applied to a low level drug dealer or non-rich person.