bench trial? you let the judge make the decision?

you can wave it @Catboi

Judge decided if I was guilty. After pushing the case through all three iterations of charges.

why did you wave it tho?

I could get a jury trial, and I was offered to see the jury beforehand. All old people, mostly women.

the jury was already selected?

what?

Sounds like you were tricked

TBH

And taking it to trial meant I would be risking 45 years in prison if guilty.

bro..jury selection is sometrhing you do with your lawyer...

Was just going to say why would you waive your right to a trial

lol oh i see what you did

you plead

toook a deal

lol thats not a trial

Well I was 19 and didn't know law stuff.

thats you pleading guilty to a lesser charge for a reduced sentence.

explains the conviction via "heresay"

Yeah if you plead guilty

so what really happened?

it's not Hearsay

The evidence against me was hearsay.

so what all happened?

That's not what convicted you

whats the story?

if you plead guilty

they don't need to do anything

They've got you on your own words at that point.

If you really were innocent, it sounds like you were tricked into taking a "deal"

because, that's not beyond a reasonable doubt...

Story started as that I attempted to rape a nine year old girl. Which I had proof by my employer that I was at work at the time it supposedly took place. And lie detector test on both me and the kid showed it didn't happen. So it became a sodomy charge on a different day. But I didn't work that day and couldn't disprove that I couldn't have done it. But no lie detector test for me or the kid for that one. And the kid refused to go on stand. Prosecutor claimed it was cause she was too traumatized to talk about it.

lie detecter tests arent admissible in court...

They are if they provide evidence against you.

you can take one sure, but it does nothing

no you legit cant use them

so who is this girl?

why do you know her?

T is right. And it's because there is zero scientific about polygraphs.

i come from a family of lawyers, and im no stranger to the courts from all my fighting.

It amounted to the mother going on the stand claiming that her daughter told her I did this in private, but wouldn't give a statement to the police cause she was scared of them.