You are stealing my time forcing me to dig up the research
Actually no, you could just leave well enough alone when I said that he had been convicted but is not necessarily disreputable because that is a factually correct statement.
And as I said, stuff he posts on his blog does not count as a credible evidence or a valid legal argument. It's one sided, selectively reported, not subject to cross examination, unauthenticated, etc. and may even be completely made up.
He does have a tendency to make things up too.
Google for
"you are supposed to plead in your own words". The only hit for that phrase on the entire internet is from his blog. He made it up.
The Supreme Court has explicitly endorsed negotiated plea agreements (contracts, which may be drafted by either party, as long as agreed by both), as well as the structured questioning of the defendant by the judge that the agreement is being entered into voluntarily, there is actual guilt, etc.
My father is an attorney that reached the highest levels working as General Counsel for a consortium of major oil companies after being the West Coast Divison Head for Exxon. He told me any contract entered under duress or unfair circumstances is invalid. I've seen other attorneys say this.
You come spouting off your mouth without consulting with an expert attorney on this matter.
You have a very high opinion of your discernment of what is factually correct, because delusions are free.
Google could help you if you actually had a clue of what to search for (which again shows you are spouting off your flippant mouth far out of your area of expertise):
http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/unenforceable-contracts-tips-33079.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duress#In_contract_lawThe Supreme Court has explicitly endorsed negotiated plea agreements (contracts, which may be drafted by either party, as long as agreed by both), as well as the structured questioning of the defendant by the judge that the agreement is being entered into voluntarily, there is actual guilt, etc.
You have not addressed duress which is a legal term.
The 7 year illegal, unconstitutional detention without a trial is part of the duress as explained by Wikipedia above, "when one of the parties to the contract enjoyed an ascendant position vis-à-vis the other party and abused that position by subjecting the other to threats". Again he was threatened by repeated acts of violence and deprivation and even refusing to allow the public into his hearings and even the court admitting it had changed the transcripts that were published.
You do not deny he was held in prison for 7 years without a trial. And certainly not a speedy trial by jury as he is provided by the constitution in the Sixth Amendment. Imagine 7 years after being arrested, you still haven't been given a trial and have been held part of the time in Supermax security prison and at times thrown into solitary confinement and then finally in middle of the night they bring another inmate into your cell to kill you and he beats you senseless and knocks your teeth out and damages your eye.
You are unfucking believable. Here is a man who has suffered the worst injustice in modern times in the USA (at least in terms of not getting a speedy public trial) and you stick to some weasel interpretation of what is "factual" which is entirely inconsistent with what our founding fathers escaped from England to get away from, and what our Constitution is designed to protect.
None of his basic Constitutional rights were respected, thus any outcome is under duress and entirely invalid in the mind of an upstanding adherent to the Constitution.
Armstrong has explained that they rushed the forced plea bargain because the Supreme Court was being forced to accept his case and this is why he thinks they used physical violence force him to sign a plea. He agreed to sign one wording of the plea which he felt did not incriminate him and then on the day of the signing the wording was changed. He knew damn well they were not going to let it go to the Supreme Court and if he didn't say "yes your honor" he was going to be killed.
He also knew that by saying "yes your honor" under such duress that he was not convicted of any crime by any person who adheres to the Constitution.
Now you go ahead with your fucked up ethics and I will stick to be a true American. Your behavior is abhorrent to me. Both your ethics and the way your trolling pedantic crap and losing the plot in the process just so you can annoy the fuck out of someone and create a lot of noise. I hope you are proud of this outcome.