Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldM to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months 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-squaremessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-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_Dickle@lemmy.worldM to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squarekobra@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months 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-squarecriitz@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoAlternatively, why doesn’t everyone choose this plea then?
minus-squareHelixDab2@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months 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.