08-19-2011, 03:38 PM
(08-19-2011, 02:43 PM)IMaDick Wrote: a plea deal? They pled guilty to something they didn't do as part of a plea deal?
what kind of a moron does something like that?
The alford plea is explicit in it's use, they plead while at the same time recognising that the state had a case with evidence that would convict them.
OK now I understand the Alford plea. But if you were in prison for a crime you didn't commit and were offered anything, wouldn't you take it? Even if it meant admitting guilt? Remember we are not dealing with the sharpest tools in the shed, and their lives were basically cut off when they were in their late teens. So, they failed to develop beyond that point.