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Re: 13 Years Rotting in Jail...

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" One real problem with the death penalty as I see it is that there are prosecutors out there who use the threat of the death penalty as a way to leverage a guilty plea when they don't have a good case. Sometimes folks will plead guilty to a crime they didn't committ just to avoid it."

Case-in-point:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/09/22/north-carolina-men-exonerated-after-pleading-guilty-to-murder-decade-earlier/




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Re: 13 Years Rotting in Jail...
By: ribit
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Fri, 23 Sep 11 4:59 PM
Msg. 34034 of 65535

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...perps with brains don't get involved in crimes that will net them the needle or life in prison.

BTW: One real problem with the death penalty as I see it is that there are prosecutors out there who use the threat of the death penalty as a way to leverage a guilty plea when they don't have a good case. Sometimes folks will plead guilty to a crime they didn't committ just to avoid it.


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