The process behind negotiating a plea
After 27 years of mystery surrounding the 1989 abduction of 11-year old Jacob Wetterling, we now know what happened. Danny Heinrich has confessed to kidnapping and murdering Wetterling.
Plea deal negotiations led to the discovery of Jacob Wetterling's remains last week. MPR News host Kerri Miller asked CBS legal editor Andrew Cohen how interrogations and plea deals come together to lead to these sorts of revelations and convictions.
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