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Too many people treat a guilty plea as a literal admission of guilt. In reality, 99% of the time it's just trying to secure a lesser sentence. Which is a catastrophe. If they did it, and you can prove it beyond reasonable doubt, they should get the full sentence. If you can't prove it, they shouldn't get any sentence. There shouldn't be any in-between.
It’s not that black and white. The guy that killed my brother had overwhelming evidence against him. 11/12 jurors voted guilty at two trials (22/24 juries total). But both juror pools included one person who would never vote guilty on a fellow native.
Two hung juries, and my brother is still dead, and his murderer is still without consequence. A plea deal would have done a lot for closure in my family.
If the jury was not able to get a guilty verdict, that sucks, but that is the system working as intended.
A plea deal would have done nothing except condemn a legally innocent person to a reduced prison sentence. The consequence of such actions just means that a bunch of people admit to crimes they didn't commit because they feel backed into a corner.
Except it sounds like this isn't a plea deal. You're describing a plea deal, where the defendant pleads guilty after reaching a deal with the projection. My understanding is this is just a guilty plea. No deal.
Why would he do that?
Is it so they don't electrocute his balls or suddenly claim everyone he's related to are illegal aliens and terrorists?