“I’ve been handed a plea form with your name on it. Is this your signature at the bottom?” the judge asks.
“Yes, it is,” Bryan said. “I signed it on just now.”
The judge asked Bryan if she had been forced, threatened, or coerced into signing the plea form, and she gently assured that she had not.
“Okay. And so you understand by signing this, you’d be giving up your right to go to trial and to contest the charges in this case,” the judge asked.
“Yes, I do,” Bryan said.
When the judge informed Bryan that noncitizens could face deportation, she softly replied, “Oh, but I am.”
After confirming that Bryan was of sound mind, “alert, intelligent, and represented by counsel,” the judge issued her ruling.
“And they are just laughing and giggling. Having a good time while putting this poor lady in jail when she needs to be somewhere she can get the help she needs. Our system is sick as hell,” one X user wrote.
“They know damn well that lady don’t know what’s going on, let alone what she signing. Smh the justice system is sooo evil, cruel, & wrong bruh!” added someone else.
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Source: Black Enterprise
