Been listening to a bunch of true crime podcasts lately. More often than not, the person accused of a horrific crime, is offered some sort of reduced sentence, in exchange for a guilty plea. I know part of the reason is to spare the victim(s) and their families the trauma of going through a trial. It just seems pointless when they have so much evidence to convict them and give them a harsher sentence, especially considering how many people rarely serve the full sentence. I get it but I also don’t.
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Because trials are very expensive and you literally only need to convince 1 person out of 12 that you might not be guilty and you get to walk free. A plea deal is security for the prosecutor that they will get a conviction and the person will do fine. In the case of true crime, you’re probably talking about someone getting convicted or one or more murders. If it’s a serial killer for example, they’ll plead down to life in prison and never be a free person again in order to avoid the death penalty. So instead of a months long trial that costs millions of dollars, and the nonzero possibility that the guy walks free, you get an open and shut resolution where the guy stays in jail forever.
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