Judge Nap: Mueller May Have Coerced Flynn into Pleading Guilty

RUSH EXCERPT:
NAPOLITANO: "Exculpatory is evidence that helps the defendant or hurts the government. The reason it’s never released after a guilty plea because a guilty plea is final, it ends the case. The defendant says under oath I did it, which is what general Flynn did here. The interesting and tantalizing question is do defendants ever plead guilty when in fact they are not? The answer is yes. Some judges will accept that because they know the pressure that are on defendants. They don’t want to sell their house, their family prosecuted. They want it to be over with. Some judges, like this one, judge Sullivan, will not. The question becomes, did the government, did Bob Mueller’s prosecutors believe that Mike Flynn was not guilty when they got him to say under oath that he was guilty? This sounds like hair splitting, but it’s — "
MacCALLUM: "That would be coercion, correct?"
NAPOLITANO: "Correct."