Ep. 33 Why Plea Deals Are a Gross Miscarriage of Justice
Bob goes solo to explain why the common practice of “offering a plea deal” is a horrible practice, which gives us little reason to trust that those convicted are actually guilty of the crimes to which they confess.Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:
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About the author, Robert
Christian and economist, Chief Economist at infineo, and Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute.
I am ashamed that Bob got through 33 episodes before I realized that he had his own show, though on the plus side I can binge the 32 episodes that I’ve missed. Thanks Bob!
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Good episode.
What is interesting is that just before finding and listening to it, I was reading Craig Murray, former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, in Consortium news, and he described plea deals as “blackmail”:
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/05/14/the-real-mueller-gate-scandal/
“It is worth remembering that none of the charges against Americans arising from the Mueller inquiry have anything to do with Russian collusion or Trump-WikiLeaks collusion, which simply do not exist. The charges all relate to entirely extraneous matters dug up, under the extraordinary U.S. system of “justice,” to try to blackmail those charged with unrelated crimes turned up by the investigation, into fabricating evidence of Russian collusion. The official term for this process of blackmail is of course “plea-bargaining.””
He’s right, of course. Blackmail is exactly what it is.
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