Cory Zeidman arrested for Sports Betting Fraud

This is a good lesson for you to stay away from AI-only research. I have practiced federal criminal defense law for over 25 years, have had numerous federal jury trials, and have taken part in over 100 federal sentencings. Ive also taught federal criminal defense. You are wrong.

Another factor I didnt mention is the increased federal indictments with multiple defendants. A 20-defendant drug and/or gang case often ends up with 20/20 pleas and so even though its only one case it creates a 20/20 defendant-to-plea ratio.

In Zeidmans case he would lose at least a 2 but likely a 3 offense level reduction under the sentencing guidelines if he went to trial as opposed to entering a plea. That would not be a significant difference in his advisory guidelines range, and nothing like the very real “trial penalty” you see in most state court proceedings.

Eh. The 3 point swing matters depending on the total offense level. Also judges tend to sentence within the range after a trial but may go below the range on a plea, depending on jurisdiction.

Only about 3 percent of defendants go to trial because the evidence is typically quite strong. Conviction rate is around 95 percent at trial

Very few federal cases are below Level 16 and arent eligible for the full 2+1 and again Ive actually tried a ton and a few youd probably recognize. Again, Ive sentenced well over 100 federal cases I mean good grief this site is so silly.

There are many sources available including Pew Reasearch showing the VAST majority (approaching 90% for most sources) of Federal criminal indictments yield pleas.

If you you choose to disagree with this, great. But given how widely known this is the case, don't expect wide support. You are also going to have to disprove the federal court data which agrees with what I previously posted. https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/f...

As to states, won't try to address all 50 but here pleas occur historically 92%-94% (higher than feds), dismissals are less than feds (~5%) and trials about the same as feds at 2%-3%.

The federal procescution trial conviction rate in 2023 was "only" 86% though this was acquital (loss) rate of only 0.4% of total cases. And that was up from 2022.

Actually my state has fewer dismissals and higher conviction rates at trial than feds. Locals DAs are not even close to stuck prosecuting cases. Locally the guilty pleas are higher than feds. Dismissal rates are lower.

Here if you are arrested you have a better chance of "getting off" on average if it is a federal case

Ignore the morons. I thought your insight was very interesting and it seems obvious that you know what you are talking about.

how could you do that to jen harman. what a dickwad