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...lawyers typically request a quick trial before a judge, prosecutors don't bother to prepare thoroughly, and the result is often acquittal. Another possibility is that judges so resented the federal sentencing guidelines, which replaced judicial discretion with strict and frequently harsh rules, that they demanded stronger proof of guilt when the prescribed sentence seemed unfair. Leipold leans to this explanation because judges started to acquit even more often at about the time the guidelines went into effect...
...Still, none of the theories quite explains why juries are so quick to find guilt, no matter the type of offense, the quality of the lawyer, or the region of the country. It seems that the inspiring scenario of a Henry Fonda-like figure prevailing over those angry men in the jury room really does only happen in the movies. And that can't be good news for a guy who wants to persuade a jury of his peers that he deserved a $190 million paycheck...
...state of California for possession of child pornography, he will be convicted, registered, monitored, and treated and that "every parent in the country has seen his picture," so any threat he poses to children will be diminished. He may end up with probation. "He is not mentally well or guilt-free," says Alicia Northam, a friend of Karr's from school, "but he is not a murderer...
...faulty jury instructions. (The trial judge didn't explain that Quattrone would have had to know what he was doing was wrong to be convicted.) With their case, and perhaps their will, weakened, prosecutors waved a white flag and agreed to let Quattrone off--no fine, no admission of guilt, no ban from the securities industry--as long as he stays out of trouble for one year...
...Karr didn't kill JonBenet Ramsey, he won't be the first to confess voluntarily to a crime he didn't commit. The motivation for these phony admissions, says criminologist Jim Fisher, author of Fall Guys: False Confessions and the Politics of Murder, can be "mental illness or extreme guilt over another crime, or they're just yearning for the attention a big case brings, the chance to be in the history books...