04-20-2018, 10:26 AM
(04-19-2018, 06:44 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Ever the Mike Brown apologist.
A guilty plea means you formally admit you committed the crime for which you are accused.
While an Alford plea is an admission the court has enough evidence to convict, but you don't admit you committed a criminal act while you maintain your innocence.
As you see, there is a bit of a difference between a guilty plea and an Alford plea. If they were the same then there wouldn't be a need to have a Alford plea and a guilty plea. Because if they were the same then we would have a guilty plea and a guilty plea. It would just be silly to have a guilty plea and another guilty plea.
So Mike Brown's intent was to deliberately mislead his fan base into thinking Mixon admitted he committed the criminal act and wasn't innocent unlike his actual Alford plea by omitting information IOT put a positive PR spin on another questionable decision. Or Mike Brown is misinformed lawyer who doesn't know the distinction between the two pleas and doesn't do his homework on his draft picks beforehand instead of a GM in obvious damage control mode.
So he is either a liar or stupid.
The Alford plea falls under the Umbrella of a Guilty plea and is actually also known as the "Alford Guilty Plea".
As you said in a post earlier, Mixon acknowledged the video evidence of him punching the woman was enough to result in his conviction.
Everyone on the Planet knew he did it and as I said earlier, this plea is legal mumbo jumbo that allows Mixon to acknowledge that the Court has him by the nads and the video evidence will lead to a conviction should the trial go forward. Mixon joins the crowd and acknowledges that the video evidence will result in his conviction and is allowed to do so via the Alford plea which is a GUILTY plea whereby a defendant in a criminal case does not admit to the criminal act and asserts innocence.
That defendant does and did, however, admit that the video evidence would have led to him being found GUILTY, thus the reason why the Alford plea falls under the Guilty plea umbrella.
Mr Brown was right when he said that Mixon pleaded Guilty. Mixon did so via the Alford Guilty plea.
Now you need to Apologize to Mike Brown.
Come on now, "apologize" to Mike.
Apologiiiiiiiiiiiize.... :heart:
