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re: Update: NYC Teen who was jailed 3 years without trial, 2 in solitary kills self
Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:50 pm to NYNolaguy1
Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:50 pm to NYNolaguy1
If you've ever been in jail, you'd know this happens a lot more frequently than people think. Most of the time, the punishment for pleading guilty is less than the time someone would spend in jail fighting the charges, so most people just plead guilty if they can't bond out
There are a few other TD'ers that can attest to this also
There are a few other TD'ers that can attest to this also
This post was edited on 10/1/14 at 12:52 pm
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Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:51 pm to Hammertime
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For a defendant who is in jail, the more a case drags on the greater the pressure to give up and plead guilty. By early 2012, prosecutors had offered Browder a deal—three and a half years in prison in exchange for a guilty plea. He refused. “I want to go to trial,” he told O’Meara, even though he knew that if he lost he could get up to fifteen years in state prison. Stories circulate on Rikers about inmates who plead guilty to crimes they didn’t commit just to put an end to their ordeal, but Browder was determined to get his day in court. He had no idea how rare trials actually are. In 2011, in the Bronx, only a hundred and sixty-five felony cases went to trial; in three thousand nine hundred and ninety-one cases, the defendant pleaded guilty.
This post was edited on 10/1/14 at 12:53 pm
Posted on 10/1/14 at 12:55 pm to Hammertime
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There are a few other TD'ers that can attest to this also
I can attest
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