The Plea (Eddie Flynn #2)

by Steve Cavanagh

Happens all the time. I’ve done it myself. Innocent people often don’t want to take the chance of losing and doing fifteen or twenty years when they could make a deal and be out in two. It’s mathematics—not justice, but that’s the reality.

“The poet Robert Frost once said that a jury is twelve people chosen to decide who has the best lawyer.

sometimes you reach so far for an explanation that you ignore the solution sitting in your pocket.

People believe what they can see. As long as you control their view, you control their mind.