Why Do Innocent People Plead Guilty?
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Roughly 20 percent of those that have been exonerated confessed to the crimes with which they were charged. Most involved persons who had actually gone to trial, but we have no way of knowing how many entered guilty pleas through bargains and never appealed as a result.
Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.29.2012