Court of Appeals of Texas July 28, 2016, NO. 01-15-00728-CR (Ex parte Vasquez)

Terry Jennings, Justice,

dissenting.

How prevalent is the phenomenon of innocent people pleading guilty? The few criminologists who have thus far investigated the phenomenon estimate that the overall rate of convicted felons as a whole is between 2 percent and 8 percent. ... [B]ut let us suppose that it is even lower, say, no more than 1 percent. When you recall that, of the 2.