Secret Service notified as Trump aide brags about 'causing innocent people to be arrested'

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In a criminal case, a plea bargain is an agreement between the prosecutor and an accused person in which the person facing charges is given the option to plead guilty to a lesser offense and, in doing so, avoid going to trial and facing a potentially harsher sentence. To date, more than 95% of felony convictions in the U.S. have been obtained through this method.


https://innocenceproject.org/coerced-pleas/

About 94 percent of felony convictions at the state level and about 97 percent at the federal level are the result of plea bargains

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/11/04/the-truth-about-trials

Guilty pleas account for about 95% of criminal convictions in state courts in the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of Justice. And in cases where a person was exonerated due to post-conviction DNA testing, almost 30% of people had falsely confessed to the crime, The Innocence Project reports.

https://michiganadvance.com/2024/03/12/as-innocent-people-often-plead-guilty-to-crimes-legislation-could-open-pathways-to-freedom/