05-08-2020, 11:09 PM
(05-08-2020, 07:46 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: A plea under duress is a false confession. This isn't about Gen. Flynn, nearly as much as it is about a rogue DOJ exercising undue authority. As a policy man, I would have thought that you would have picked that up from the moment the memos were released. It seems to me that their intent was to create a crime, where there was none.
Eh, I still don't understand that line of thinking.
Duress of what? Jail? Nearly every plea deal would then be made under duress.
He cut a deal,admitting to a crime. Their verbage may change a bit, but in every court I've been in, a defendant is asked about a plea whenever it's entered, and it includes some language about not entering it under duress. So the guy, at some point, stood up in court, said he wasn't under duress.
This is a pretty solid example of why there should be even more separation of powers. Here's a guy who did illegal actions for the executive branch, got caught, and now gets off with a crime because of it. It's not like he killed anyone, but it's still people accepting illegal acts because of partisanship.
