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re: The Auburn 4- Why did Goodwin get 15 years?
Posted on 11/1/15 at 9:41 pm to jangalang
Posted on 11/1/15 at 9:41 pm to jangalang
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Plea bargain as a part of trials is not fair at all. It is just efficient. That is it. Plea bargaining allows the prosecutor to put people away without the evidence and/ or the witnesses that a bench or jury trial would need to put the defendants away.
Except that on their own, plea deals do not take away anyone's right to a fair trial. It's simply a legal agreement where you wave your right to defend yourself for a lesser punishment. In and of themselves, plea deals violate no Constitutional requirements or the due process of law. Now, if you want to argue that public defenders are either incompetent OR (more likely) overworked and thus inefficient, that's another discussion.
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Posted on 11/1/15 at 9:47 pm to DoreonthePlains
Don't attack me like I'm the only one throwing around ad hominums. I didn't even care about plea deals; I was just trying to say that plea deals doesn't necessarily mean defendants will get a fair trial!
On their own, plea bargains are just legal instruments, no shite. I wasnt arguing against that. As a whole, they can be coercive if prosecutors threaten to throw the book at the defendants.
On their own, plea bargains are just legal instruments, no shite. I wasnt arguing against that. As a whole, they can be coercive if prosecutors threaten to throw the book at the defendants.
This post was edited on 11/1/15 at 10:45 pm
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