thorn69

You don't know much about court system do you? Everything in court is about compromise. Truth is always nice but getting the truth to come out is next to impossible unless somebody is foolish enough to self incriminate themselves. It's not like bad guys turn into "tell all's" on the stand ya know! Not unless something is given to them beforehand!

Court is nothing more than a battleground for the prosecution and defense to battle out a compromise. That's why there are "plea bargains". Hence the word, "bargain". Bargains are "deals" and "deals" are "compromises". Nobody usually ever gets what they want in court. Judges are usually very liberal and play the "safe card" instead of making real judgments. They have the law to tell them what judgment they can make in specific case and those laws are usually very liberal. For instance, a judge could sentence somebody to 1 year in prison or 20 years for the same offense. That's a lot of years for them to play around with.

It's rare that a judge will award someone the full sentence unless there's undeniable evidence present that makes the judge think the defendant is somehow lying. And usually if there's "smoking gun" evidence like that present the defense will beg the prosecution for a plea deal and aim for a lesser sentence before getting out in front of the judge and jury. This makes it an instant win for the prosecution without having to take any risks of the "smoking gun" evidence not actually garnishing the results the prosecution would be hoping for.

I've seen judges turn "smoking gun" evidence into inadmissible evidence in a blink of an eye and watched the prosecution lose it's entire case by getting over zealous and trying to slam someone away for a life sentence and watched a murderer walk away!

If the prosecution can get the defendant to admit guilt then they have an instant win and don't have to worry about proving anything. Of course they usually have to give the defendant something in return for them to admit guilt - usually a much lesser sentence or some other "hook-up" that will benefit the defendant during his time in prison.

I trust you have a better understanding now about how it works and can see that court is nothing BUT compromises.