Many Nons who are legal analysts have written extensively about the use of Draconian multiple sentences and the plea system as a means of ensuring that a jury never evaluates whether a charge has any merit.

"Do you want to plead guilty because you are guilty?"

That one is right up there with holding a gun to someone's head and forcing them to write that they aren't being coerced.

If the sentences had some relationship to the crime, then maybe a guilty plea wouldn't be coerced out of those who know that they aren't guilty. But with the state of KP laws, only the naive risk speaking the truth and facing the consequences.

The judge really ought not bother going through the motions quite so vigorously.

Accepting the plea is enough validation for the fiction. He doesn't really need to keep prodding the coerced party for a "free" confession.

Dante