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Originally Posted by L-Pink
A compromise verdict is a crutch for an indecisive jury to say he was sorta guilty. It allows them to walk away without really making a decision.
It allows a prosecutor to shoot for a big charge while hoping for a lesser conviction he might not have gotten if the lesser charge was what the defendant was actually being charged with.
The jury decision should be black/white not in the big gray area.
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I agree. Sadly, this is the modern system. If you get arrested for something they often will throw every charge they can possibly think of at you in order to get you to plea down to one of the lesser charges. Crime is now big business in this this country. Prosecutors want to pad their numbers so they can get elected or get better paying jobs, jails wants convictions so they can bill the state/city/federal government and police want convictions so they can show that they are doing their job.