You say not to accept a plea agreement if your not guilty of the crime, that this is an admission of guilt. Not necessarily so. When one sits in the county jail for 5,6, 7 months even a year, with no support from anyone, waiting for a court date. Even though you know your not guilty, when they tell you that you will be released today if you accept a lesser plea to your charge, with time served and probation, this sounds good to someone who has been sitting for however long, with absolutely nothing. Wrong or right this is one reason why this is an acceptable agreement at the time. What is not realized is this will come back to bite you in the @$$ in the future.
Something that happened to me 12yrs ago, has done just that. Although the initial charge was dissmissed, an escape charge was added because I left the hospital when they released me and later found out , the hospital was supposed to contact the local police dept. Which they didnt, and I sat in the lobby watching them run around like headless chickens looking for whoever. The whoever, as I later found out was me. Charges of escape follow me to this day, as I recently found out, dealing with a (self defense) assault with domestic violence charge against me now. The other day you posed a question on your show. Should a person be held responsible for assault charges when the injuries inflicted were in self defense? I called and gave my comment later to find out your opinion, I wanted to give you mine.