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Prosecutor’s Sentencing Message to Defendant: Insist on Trial, Pay with Your Liberty
Loaded on July 15, 2022
by David Reutter
published in Criminal Legal News
August, 2022, page 50
Filed under:
Police State-Surveillance,
Penalty for Going to Trial.
Location:
United States of America.
by David M. Reutter
For persons inexperienced with the criminal justice system, it seems incomprehensible that an innocent person would plead guilty. The threat of a trial penalty, however, pushes many innocents to do just that. The cases of Pamela Moses and Levonta Barker illustrate how prosecutors abuse their discretion ...
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