Mark Edgington spent eight years in prison for a second-degree murder charge in connection with the beating and strangulation death of a motel manager in 1989
Innocent people plead guilty or no contest to charges all the time, tbh. I think what’s crazy is running for office as a member of the party famous for its calls of “law and order” after spending eight years in the big house at the hands of the “law.” You might think that would clue you in that maybe the legal system is not all it’s cracked up to be.
I mean, the first part is fucked up too, y’all just normalised it - as if falsely pleading guilty falls under telling the truth.
And all for the sake of the system itself to function normally or by direct & intentional design, to make professionals (judges, lawyers, etc) appear more successful by some counting metric.
Innocent people plead guilty or no contest to charges all the time, tbh. I think what’s crazy is running for office as a member of the party famous for its calls of “law and order” after spending eight years in the big house at the hands of the “law.” You might think that would clue you in that maybe the legal system is not all it’s cracked up to be.
Eight years in the clink? The slammer? The hoosegow?
I mean, the first part is fucked up too, y’all just normalised it - as if falsely pleading guilty falls under telling the truth.
And all for the sake of the system itself to function normally or by direct & intentional design, to make professionals (judges, lawyers, etc) appear more successful by some counting metric.
No contest isn’t “I’m guilty”, it’s more like “I choose not to fight this”. It isn’t inherently dishonest by itself.
I said ‘falsely pleading guiltily’, not ‘choosing to not contest’.