A Deal With the Devil: Plea Deals • BRAVE NEW FILMS

A plea deal is an arrangement to resolve a case without going to trial. This is an option most often taken by those who cannot afford bail and want to go home instead of wait days, months,...

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Plea deals are a deal with the devil but it's only when you're done when the debtto the devil really becomes apparent.Three 18 year old peers leaving football practice one of the guys goes in thestore and he steals a honey bun. The store keepers chasing. Grabs his armpulls away and they take off running. They run down the street. The cops pull upthree kids eating the honey bun. And they're going to charge all threekids with robbery. If you're in custody or the system is going to postbail one of three things is going to happen. The rich bail out. The poor can't bailout. Then that plea deal. That's that third option. So now this kid is sittingin jail and the bond is one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. His parentsthey&...