[scarface_74]

If you have a choice between admitting you did something you didn’t do and get a lighter sentence or know you’re going to be railroaded by the justice system and still lose, which one are you going to do?

And the “defense attorneys” are going to be overworked underpaid public defenders while the prosecutors have what amounts to an unlimited budget

[bombcar]

I'd argue you almost have a moral obligation to take the railroading, otherwise society begins to collapse. At least with the railroad there's a chance that the defense is sufficient, that the jury concurs, and the issues get exposed. If nobody fights it, it will metastasize.

I understand how impossibly hard that could be in the moment, but never never go quietly into that dark night.

Unless, of course, you're guilty and you know it, then clap your hands on anything that reduces what you have to suffer for it, I guess.

[scarface_74]

Really? Sit in jail for maybe 3 or 4 extra years for the “good of society”?

[Tostino]

For a society that has utterly failed them in the first place...not a chance in my book.