Carissa Hessick on Jan. 6 Plea Bargains
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Plea Bargaining
A number of defendants are pleading guilty to a misdemeanour, even though their behaviour would have satisfied at least one of the felonies. So i think do j is individualizing those cases more than they are the misdemeanour cases. And just as a means of estimate, what percentage of people are ending up pleading to misdemeanours versus felonies? It's hard to say for sure, but roughly, oh of the folks we've seen so far, ye, i think the last time i counted it was, it was 60 of them, just pleaded to that one particular misdemeanour. We've only got a few felonies though, so far. I mean, a dozen
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