I agree with everything here, but I wouldn’t use conviction rate as a good metric. The US has a fairly disgusting conviction rate itself (especially federally) linked in with that whole “plea guilty to 6-60 months (judge’s prerogative) or face 40 years to get a trial, but we don’t call that duress”.
I’ve only once seen a guilty plea where the defendant is asked under oath if they actually agree there’s enough evidence to convict them, and that was a high-profile person getting a slap on the wrist for basically treason.
99% sure it was Sydney Powell. If I’m remembering wrong, then it was Jenna Ellis. Coulda been both. In Ms. Ellis’ guilty plea (I skimmed the video of it) she was bombarded with 5 minutes of confirming questions and I don’t have time to listen to all of them. This recently came up on… I think it was Legal Eagle’s analysis of all these guilty pleas, and if you haven’t checked him out and are interested, you might want to (he’s on Youtube)
I agree with everything here, but I wouldn’t use conviction rate as a good metric. The US has a fairly disgusting conviction rate itself (especially federally) linked in with that whole “plea guilty to 6-60 months (judge’s prerogative) or face 40 years to get a trial, but we don’t call that duress”.
I’ve only once seen a guilty plea where the defendant is asked under oath if they actually agree there’s enough evidence to convict them, and that was a high-profile person getting a slap on the wrist for basically treason.
Out of curiosity, who?
99% sure it was Sydney Powell. If I’m remembering wrong, then it was Jenna Ellis. Coulda been both. In Ms. Ellis’ guilty plea (I skimmed the video of it) she was bombarded with 5 minutes of confirming questions and I don’t have time to listen to all of them. This recently came up on… I think it was Legal Eagle’s analysis of all these guilty pleas, and if you haven’t checked him out and are interested, you might want to (he’s on Youtube)