Thanks Bob. It’s obvious now that they were working out deals like it was a poker game. I’ll get this sap to plead guilty in exchange for you reducing the charges for this guy, etc. The man never raised a single objection at any of the proceedings. That attorney died unexpectedly last year. I had to struggle with my own conscience not to celebrate. After all, he had a family who loved him too.

Gerald, my bet is your public defender (ie public offender) sold you out to get a better deal on a different case. I’m so sorry this happened to you.

Dear Ed C, I know first hand what happens if you go to trial in the federal system…you lose. Nearly all the rules and laws favor the feds. A citizen has nearly no chance at a fair trial. Then, upon a guilty verdict, you are punished way more harshly for exercising your rights (endowed by your Creator). And unless you beg for forgiveness at the alter of a fake God (ie the judge and prosecutor) for wasting their precious time, then they’ll call you unrepentant and hammer you so incredibly harsh that your sentence is reminiscent of communist Cuba and Russia just because you exercised rights that they are sworn to uphold. This is treasonous behavior in my humble opinion.

Fewer than 3% of federal cases go to trial. I find it very cynical that a harsher sentence after trial is referred to as the “trial penalty.” They don’t blink an eye at the concept of a penalty for exercising a constitutional right.

Veritas.

I would like to hear a DA or judge explain how 10 years (for example) is perfectly fair if pleading guilty, but if taken to full trial the sentence must be higher. The most common excuse I’ve always heard is lack of remorse, but I have 2 problems with that. First, a person cannot be remorseful for a crime they didn’t commit and second, it touches on freedom of thought.

Another trick is to purposefully leave something out of the factual basis so a harsher sentence can be justified after conviction at full trial, going by the transcript of my own plea hearing and others I have read.

Ok my memory is not as bad as I thought. Below is the link. Old Sheriff Joe had this headline back in the day and made International news because of the treatment of inmates.

“Arizona’s Tent City Jail: Where prisoners wear pink underwear, eat meatless meals and swelter in the 120-degree heat”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/arizonas-tent-city-jail-where-prisoners-wear-pink-underwear-eat-meatless-meals-and-swelter-in-the-120-degree-heat

94% of all criminal convictions are the direct result of accepting a plea on the State level, 97% on the Federal level.

*… the simple reality that 97 percent of federal convictions and 94 percent of state convictions are the result of guilty pleas. *

Source : https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/10-444#