Dateline’s Lawyer Up: The Alford Plea | Dateline NBC

The legalese of criminal law can be confusing. So Dateline’s attorney Beth Lobel is here to explain what exactly an Alford plea is.

[caufykeese]

This gunna case got me researching tf out this shit

[rodysummertje]

Most ridiculous rule that ever existed in court of law. It's just a way that the state ain't responisble for there wrong convictions. Happy we dont have that here in the Netherlands. It's about what the evidence proves without any question.

[abelthink]

I still don't think Alford Plea should exist.

If you are not guilty then defend yourself even if the evidence is against you. The good thing is that if they eventually find you not guilty after sent to prison then you can get compensated with money and other benefits.

And if you are guilty then you should take the full punishment and not a piece of it.

[kodek]

It's funny how this lawyer explains why a person would plea this way. That is not really the question. That part is clear. The real question is why would any judge ever accept "I plea guilty but I'm not guilty"? This is actually what Alford said in court. If this man was innocent it is clear the prosecution AND his defence convinced him not to fight for his innocence which I have to say sounds disgusting.

[chocolatecookieboi]

I won’t go into too much detail, but a case that im sort of related to has ended in an Alford plea. It’s so stupid because the police have a receipt of the person buying the gun, and having it in a household where a felon had access too it and then used it to commit the crime that I’m actually involved in.
My family and I are sitting here thinking, what a coward, cause she obviously bought the thing, and had it in a house with a convicted felon, she not being the felon herself

[sandrapeek]

So is the Alford plea the same as a no lo plea?

[abelthink]

It is a violation of due process of rights

[GrumpyAssOldMan]

So what is no contest because this sounds like a plea of no contest. Am I wrong?