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Hi, this is Jillian and you are listening to a court-junkie brief on Guilty Please

from a prosecutor's perspective.

I've been wanting to do a brief on Guilty Please for a while now.

I have followed a lot of cases, and undoubtedly you have two, where a defendant takes a guilty plea,

and it just doesn't always seem right.

Whether it seems like the defendant is getting off with a lighter prison sentence than they deserve,

or whether someone has pleaded guilty, even though you're not exactly sure that they are in fact guilty.

But what do I know?

So I wanted to get the perspective of a prosecutor, someone who makes plea deals all the time,

and is actually an advocate for them.

So in today's brief, I did just that.

My name is Dave Wander, W-E-N-G-R, and I'm a prosecutor.

I've been a prosecutor for nearly five years, and Pennsylvania.

I already knew what questions that I had about plea agreements,

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