I suppose so. And I guess there is a value in corroborating testimony as well.
Yeah, Powell and Chesebro were high up enough in the conspiracy planners I was hoping some actual prison time for them, but am consoling myself in believing the various bar associations will be telling them to pursue another line of work.
Yes, because if you have one person who pled guilty and now is testifying against the Big Fish, defence can try to impeach their credibility, that they’re testifying just to keep themselves out of jail and can’t be trusted.
But if you have 4, or 5, or 10, all pleading guilty, and their testimony corroborates each other, and is supported by their own e-mails and texts, that type of defence is much weaker.
I’m not a lawyer, but in theory wouldn’t everyone potentially get a better deal by pleading guilty?
Not necessarily the “slap on the wrist probation” deal the first couple of people get, but something better than the sentence they’d be likely to get if they went to trial? I thought that was the point of plea deals… Save the prosecution time and money, and you face a lighter sentence.
Better deal than what?
Better than they’d get by going to trial and being found guilty? Almost certainly.
Better than they’d get by going to trial and being found not guilty? Almost certainly the no-guilty outcome is better than the plea deal.
Do ya feel lucky? … Well? … Do ya?
Yeah, that might be the Trump mindset, fair.
Hid start of derailment.
Unless you are found innocent- yes you are correct.
This is the issue that faces some kiddie porn or similar defendants- they think their pictures of their nude baby in the tub are okay, but they have a choice- 99 counts and many decades in prison or plead out with no jail time and have to register.
But the fact these people are pleading out means they think their chances of winning are slight.
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Is there an actual case like this?
No, do not go down this hijack path. I’ll hide the post that started this.
Sorry!
Five or six more plea deals in the works?
If those defendants – and/or their lawyers – are smart, they’ll be lunging for deals while the getting’s still relatively good.
Aha!
From that article:
Good to know I’m not just bloviating here!
And i liked the commentator’s closing comment:
I see the title of the article is “Trump’s defense may be doomed,” but I’m not convinced his team ever planned for any viable defense in court. His entire strategy has been to play to his base and hope he wins the next election. His behavior during his various trials doesn’t seem to make sense because we tend to look at things from the point of view of a “normal” defendant. But Trump isn’t normal, and his behavior in regards to the charges actually makes sense when you realize he isn’t trying to win any legal battles.
I just want to say that the “asked/answered” setup of the thread title gives me a chuckle every time I read it now. “What if he got caught? Update: he has been caught.”
We may need a series of edits:
“What if Trump is convicted in Georgia?” (Update: he has been convicted)
“What if Trump’s appeal is successful in Georgia?” (Update: it was not successful)
“What if Trump has to serve prison time in Georgia?” (Update: he is serving prison time in Georgia)
Another extremely well-adjusted fan of Fani Willis exercises his right to free speech (as he understands it):
He seems nice.
By Reactionary Wacko Traitor standards he probably is nice … er than average. He certainly spells better than the average RWT.
Technically, I think these were voicemails, so I’m far from ready to accept your premise 
Oh. I thought they were texts or emails or similar.