Plea Bargain Hell
Michael Kinsley writes in Slate about the dirty little secret of the US justice system: people are supposed to confess to crimes they didn’t commit. It happens every day, and is called “plea bargaining.” If a DA scares you into believing he can convict you of murder, then the only way to avoid the death penalty may be to stand in front of a judge and swear that you accidentally killed someone you did not kill at all.
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