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Someone may choose to plead guilty in order to accept responsibility for their actions, potentially receive a lighter sentence, avoid a lengthy and costly trial, or to show remorse and seek leniency from the court.

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The same thing that would happen today. If you plead guilty, there is no trial and your are sentenced, but more lightly than if you'd plead not guilty. Confessors were just jailed instead of being killed.


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No. If you pled not guilty but were not granted a Public Defender, you would be given an opportunity (called a "continuance") to obtain counsel. When you came back with counsel they could either continue your plea of not guilty and prepare to defend you or (after consulting with you) plead you guilty and attempt to obtain the best terms possible.


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