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Typical prosecutorial overcharge
The 6 separate collision charges should have been just one but prosecutors historically overcharge with multiple charges instead of one so the potential penalty is greater and the defendant is pressured into a plea saving the taxpayers trial costs. Every day cases are charges, defendants are told they will server many years in prison without a plea and the pleas is remarkably lower. What would you do if you faced a choice of 15 years or a year of probation. 98 percent of all criminal cases are plea bargained. Nothing new hear. Most likely plea to misdemeanors, suspended sentence of 1 or 2 years and community service.
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