> a man has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to illegally fix the prices of posters he sold online
So correct me if I'm wrong, but we don't actually know whether he was guilty or not, right? He may just have pleaded to avoid the costs and the hassle of longer process?
(I don't want to spin it into a discussion about plea bargains - it's just that I'm not from the US, I just want to know if I understand the phenomenon correctly.)
Well if you plead guilty you are saying you are guilty. You are correct there could have been a deal struck and it was just better in the end to not take the chance in court.
So correct me if I'm wrong, but we don't actually know whether he was guilty or not, right? He may just have pleaded to avoid the costs and the hassle of longer process?
(I don't want to spin it into a discussion about plea bargains - it's just that I'm not from the US, I just want to know if I understand the phenomenon correctly.)