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
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.
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’.