you haven't been inside a courtroom in 30 years and your anecdotes are grossly outdated.

I retired in 2019, and still appear in court a few times a year.

I'm not going to keep arguing with you. I'll just say the system is more flawed than you might imagine, and understandable questions like "how many of your clients were innocent?" aren't as simple as they seem. There's no doubt most of my clients were guilty, and they were punished fairly, usually with a plea bargain. There were some that were innocent, and it was satisfying to see them freed. What is really upsetting though is that the government rarely, if ever, will acknowledge a mistake. Either you have to get found not guilty at trial, or actual proof of innocence (usually DNA evidence) must exist. Check out the Innocence Project to see how many wrongfully convicted people have been freed by DNA evidence. Most defendants are overcharged - a trespass becomes a burglary, assaults become attempted murders. It happens every day. It is really an economic transaction- plea bargaining is like any bargain. You ask for more than you expect to get, and the other side asks for less. The two sides come to an agreement somewhere in the middle.

The Clancy case was set up to avoid any chance of a bargain, which supports @jimmysong and @justin_shocknet idea that this is a psyop. I'm not going that far.