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by marekmroz 4899 days ago
How can you be a prisoner of conscience when plea bargain requires that you admit your guilt?
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Pleading guilty doesn't signify anything other than admitting that you are guilty of breaking the law. It doesn't signify that you agree that the law itself is just. Thoreau said, "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."