Don_DickleM to Explain Like I'm FiveEnglish • 2 days agoELI5: How can an alford plea be different from a guilty plea if your pleading to all charges? Kind of like the West Memphis 3?message-square10arrow-up118arrow-down14
arrow-up114arrow-down1message-squareELI5: How can an alford plea be different from a guilty plea if your pleading to all charges? Kind of like the West Memphis 3?Don_DickleM to Explain Like I'm FiveEnglish • 2 days agomessage-square10
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 days agoThey take an Alford plea to avoid a harsher sentence that could come at trial and/or they’re 1000% sure they’re innocent but can’t prove it (yet).
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•edit-22 days agoAlternatively, why doesn’t everyone choose this plea then?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 days agoI don’t believe that the judge or prosecutor have to allow you to have that option.
They take an Alford plea to avoid a harsher sentence that could come at trial and/or they’re 1000% sure they’re innocent but can’t prove it (yet).
Alternatively, why doesn’t everyone choose this plea then?
I don’t believe that the judge or prosecutor have to allow you to have that option.