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Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by tadfisher on Thursday February 04, 2021 @09:53PM (#26032517)
This claim disregards those who take a plea deal because they believe they cannot win a federal criminal case, which is a superset of those who are actually innocent of their accused crimes.
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Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by ryanwhitney on Thursday February 04, 2021 @09:55PM (#26032532)
Yeah. Oddly enough, the aforementioned “97%” stat brought me to an Innocence Project page[1] which leads with:

> In nearly 11% of the nation’s 349 DNA exoneration cases, innocent people entered guilty pleas.

Obviously a small and biased sample group, but guilty plea ≠ guilty.

[1] https://innocenceproject.org/guilty-plea-campaign-announceme... (2017)

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