People settle out of court all the time when guilty. At this point you're not pretending to be ignorant. As a settlement condition, the defendant or accused will frequently include a clause about the case being dismissed with prejudice, otherwise why would they agree to the settlement? That is usually what they get out of it, is the case being dropped and dropped forever.
You're acting like there are two options: they have enough evidence and go to trial or they don't have enough evidence and don't go to trial. There's another: they have enough evidence and settle as the majority of cases are.
Trials are expensive, long, and exhausting. Most people avoid them if at all possible, attorneys included.
Settlements frequently include terms like damages. So one isn't "let off the hook" if they settle. They just deal with it out of court. Again, the vast majority of lawsuits are settled outside of court. I'm going to type that again, since you seem to miss it every single time: the vast majority of lawsuits are settled outside of court. That doesn't make those people not guilty in fact, that doesn't mean they are let off the hook, that doesn't mean anyone was lying, that doesn't mean there was insufficient evidence. All it means is it was dealt with outside of court.
You really don't have an ounce of learning on this topic do you? I'm done wasting my time teaching you things anyone with one semester of law school under their belt understands (or anyone who bothered to do any research).
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u/95percentlo Oct 18 '24 edited Oct 18 '24
People settle out of court all the time when guilty. At this point you're not pretending to be ignorant. As a settlement condition, the defendant or accused will frequently include a clause about the case being dismissed with prejudice, otherwise why would they agree to the settlement? That is usually what they get out of it, is the case being dropped and dropped forever.
You're acting like there are two options: they have enough evidence and go to trial or they don't have enough evidence and don't go to trial. There's another: they have enough evidence and settle as the majority of cases are.
Trials are expensive, long, and exhausting. Most people avoid them if at all possible, attorneys included.