The news is filled with stories of wrongful convictions and estimates of how often innocent people are arrested, convicted, and sentenced, are on the rise.  Visit  http://www.truthinjustice.org/ for more information on the subject as well as numerous documented case histories.   Included in wrongful conviction cases are those defendants who, at the advice of their attorneys, took a plea bargain rather then face the death penalty or a life sentence.  Read Bill Moushey's excellent series "Win at All Costs" to learn how the system can coerce an innocent person to plead to something he didn't do: http://www.post-gazette.com/win/