Rebekah Jones ordered to admit guilt, pay $20K in deferred prosecution agreement
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"I order you to do X, and if you don't you'll be punished with bad thing Y."
vs.
"You can agree to do X, but if you don't then bad thing Y will happen to you."
The choice is the same. The difference is merely semantics.
Prosecutors in the USA are well known to use these sort of coercive tactics in plea deals all the time.
We can discuss the ethical questions of plea deals, but I see that being different that a system that orders an admission of guilt. Such systems tend to be barbaric often extracting admissions of guilt via torture.
In practice this is always enforced by a punishment, making it functionally indistinguishable from the first case.
Again, the only difference is semantics.
> I see [plea deals] being different
Then the semantics are doing their intended job: same official use of coercive force, now with better marketing.
> Such systems tend to be barbaric often extracting admissions of guilt via torture.
Let's not muddy the waters.
We all agree torture is bad (both when it's done in the USA and elsewhere), but your issue was with the appropriateness of the word "forced" to describe coercive plea deals.