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Message: [QUOTE="Subob1, post: 2745504, member: 464"] Also, in my opinion defendants cut a deal (regardless of the quality of their potential defense) because they simply don't have the financial resources to pay the hundreds of thousands of dollars in pretrial and trial fees to a team of top tier lawyers, leaving their families destitute. More so if their assets have been seized or frozen. One of the reasons given for, at one time multi millionaire Paul Manafort accepting a cooperation agreement was, he was broke. If you are crooked and get caught by the Feds, it helps to be very rich when it comes to defending yourself in court. If not you plead out. Unfortunately a two tiered system of justice; one for the rich and one for the poor. [/QUOTE]