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"People plead guilty all the time to crimes they didn't commit," she said. "This is a really big thing that I think a lot of people don't understand."
"Or, even though mey feel they're innocent, they're afraid the evidence could be too strong against them," she added. "So they can plead now and get probation, or go to trial, [possibly] be found guilty and go to jail.""Sometimes a judge orders that as a term of probation, you have to be employed," she explained. "Thats a really hard thing when there are no jobs. And then you're in violation of probation, and you get sent to jail. Or you have to pay probation fees, $65 a month if you have supervised probation. So you pay that, and. then you can't pay your rent, and then you get evicted for nonpayment - not even because of your criminal case."See the full content of this document
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And Justice for All
As a public defender in Roxbury and Dorchester District Courts and in the housing unit at Greater Boston Legal Services, Renay Frankel saw that people charged with crimes often struggle with other problems, like eviction, unemployment, family issues and loss of welfare benefits.
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