Plea bargains sound like a good idea, but there is an evil side to them. A prosecutor will offer a defendant the choice of taking a plea bargain or going to trial. The plea bargain offers a reasonable shorter sentence, than taking the risk of going on trial and being found guilty. If found guilty, the sentence could be a hundred times worse.
A plea bargain is when a person admits they are guilty, and they get a break. These deals are great for the real criminals who are guilty of the crime. They would rather take the plea than to be found guilty and pay a heavy price. But for the innocent person, a plea bargain is adding salt to the wound. It is a rotten deal for them. Prosecutors only want one thing. To have everyone plead guilty, so they can put another notch on their belt of wins.
Prosecutors are intimidating, and threatening to those who are being prosecuted for something they did not even do. The plea bargain deal is outrageous. This is an example why: They will tell you, "If you plead guilty, you will only have to serve two years in prison. If you don't take the deal, and you are found guilty by a jury, you will do LIFE IN PRISON." That is how evil this game is.
When a person has to face a choice like this, it is a lose, lose situation. A person who is innocent, must LIE and admit they are guilty, to receive a short sentence for something they are innocent of, or risk getting an outrageously long sentence, if the jury buys into the master manipulations of a prosecutor. In reality, this game allows the real criminal to get away free.
Blaise Pascal stated,"Justice without force is powerless: force without justice is tyrannical." The game of plea bargaining with the innocent fits into these words. The plea bargain is a cruel and self serving tactic to benefit the prosecutors. Juries are more apt to believe the twisted words of a sharp prosecutor, than that of a defense attorney. This is because law officials make it appear that anyone who gets arrested must be guilty.
Anyone who has dealt with the court system knows only to well that an accused person is considered "guilty" until found innocent. NOT the other way around like it is suppose to be. Jurors are not allowed to have an arrest record, or come from a lifestyle other than "Law abiding citizen." This in fact constitutes a fraud, because the Constitution states that a person is to be judged by their "PEERS." Their peers are those they hang out with, and who know what conditions are, with situations concerning crime.
Thousands of innocent people are sitting in prison for taking the plea to get a shorter sentence, for fear of being found guilty, and spending the rest of their lives in prison for something they did not do. Way too many innocent people trusted that the laws were just, and they choose to go to trial to prove their innocence. The prosecutors have a way to convince juries that the innocent are guilty. Is this justice?
How does any of this begin to help the victims of the crime? When pleas are made with the guilty, they get short time. If the innocent plead guilty to get a shorter sentence, they were coerced into it, and the real criminal is still out free to do it again. "Extreme law is often extreme injustice." Terence. Prison sentences should be shortened, and plea bargains should be abolished. That would make more sense than playing the plea bargain games with the lives of the accused. But our law officials don't like to use common sense. They love playing games. That is what court is all about to them.