Make 200-mile trek to courthouse or plead guilty? Some defendants choose the latter
By EsqSocial Corporation 09/07/14
Criminal defendants in the nation’s geographically largest county are increasingly pleading guilty because they don’t want to make trips to a courthouse that is located up 200-plus miles away, according to local lawyers. The lengthy trips in San Bernardino County, California, are a fact of life because of court closures…