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Pandemic Pressures Defendants into False Guilty Pleas
Loaded on March 15, 2022
by David Reutter
published in Criminal Legal News
April, 2022, page 46
Filed under:
COVID-19,
Wrongful Conviction,
Plea Agreements/Guilty Pleas.
Location:
United States of America.
by David M. Reutter
The majority of people held in jails throughout the U.S. have not been convicted of a crime. They are more inclined to accept plea offers to secure immediate release from incarceration. A recent study found that “the added risk of COVID exposure in jail made participants-defendants ...
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