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34057 Re: 13 Years Rotting in Jail...
   ocu ...yep, that's the article I saw too.
ribit   FFFT   23 Sep 2011
7:54 PM
34050 Re: 13 Years Rotting in Jail...
   I don't understand you. You worry so much about the bad guys. You...
Decomposed   FFFT   23 Sep 2011
7:19 PM

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Re: 13 Years Rotting in Jail...

By: oldCADuser in FFFT
Fri, 23 Sep 11 7:07 PM
Msg. 34049 of 65535
(This msg. is a reply to 34034 by ribit)
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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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