re: #413 Obdicut

Do you understand that people plea to lesser charges to avoid prosecution on larger charges?

I don’t know what there was or wasn’t evidence for, and neither do you. But a plea bargain almost always means avoiding a larger charge, by pleading to a lesser one. That’s how it works.

Do you get how the 95% conviction rate works against your contention that if they had any chance of conviction on another charge they’d have taken him to trial?

Here is how the conversation probably went: Prosecutors showed Defendants that the case on a number of charges was pretty airtight. Offered to drop the less certain charges in return for a plea. Why? No desire by the prosecutors to waste time and resources giving this spotlight hogging dufus free publicity. Defendant accepts plea offer. Why? Decided that the free publicity was not worth the “downdings” to what is left of his reputation to be viewed as a college fraternity level sexual deviant/prankster.