Florida prosecutors offer to drop solicitation charges against Kraft

[RandySF]

If he admits he would have been found guilty, per Wall Street Journal.

[DontBooVote]

1. Is this common for this offense? Or is this yet another example of a two-tiered justice system?

[RandySF]

2. It was described as "unusual" in the headline on my phone.

[shanny]

4. the latter I'm sure

deep-pockets = expensive prosecution

[underpants]

5. Alford plea

An Alford plea (also called a Kennedy plea in West Virginia,[1] an Alford guilty plea[2][3][4] and the Alford doctrine),[5][6][7] in United States law, is a guilty plea in criminal court,[8][9][10] whereby a defendant in a criminal case does not admit to the criminal act and asserts innocence.[11][12][13] In entering an Alford plea, the defendant admits that the evidence presented by the prosecution would be likely to persuade a judge or jury to find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alford_plea

[DontBooVote]

9. That is the dumbest thing I've read all day. And I've been on Twitter! "I'm innocent but the

evidence would show otherwise."

Holy fucking shit.

[underpants]

10. 47 states have some form of it. Saves prosecution time anmoney.

Indiana Michigan New Jersey and the Armed Forces don’t have it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_Alford_plea_usage

I know it was used by at least one person in the Charlottesville garage beating

[DontBooVote]

11. I guess now we'll just have to see if it is applied evenly, as stupid as it is.

[Lochloosa]

6. No and yes.

[Sanity Claws]

3. Was this misreported?

What is he admitting that he would have been guilty of, if the charges are dropped? Something sounds off here.

[underpants]

7. Man! And they caught him red handed

[mr_lebowski]

8. As long as they do this for everyone they rounded up ...

Not just the uber-high-profile rich folks they rounded up, I guess I'm okay with this. Not a big fan of prostitution being a criminal offense.

I also suspect that the whole 'sex quota with 1400 men/year, forced to live at the spa, cook on hot plates, and sleep on massage beds' story we were first told ... will fall apart on further inspection, as will (likely) the trafficking charges in general.

My main reason for thinking that is that these spas were mostly in suburban strip malls. They are not going to be properly equipped as facilities for multiple people to be living in full-time. You have both government inspectors, AND the property owners who would be checking out the property regularly. It would be very obvious to either if you had, say, 10 women LIVING at the spa and never leaving.

And then there's your other paying tenants, who would not appreciate inevitable signs of blight that would result from people being improperly housed in these businesses.

You might be able to pull off something like (what we were told was going on) in the run-down parts of big cities, but not in Florida suburban strip malls.

I'll be quite surprised, put it like that.