No, you plead guilty when you realize that the whole corrupt system is against you and wants to make example of you so that enyone else would not dare. Moreover you see that support you’ve been given even though strong cannot make you win this time. And on top of that maybe you thought Trump would change the system but you see it is not going to be on time or maybe never. So you calculate the risk and probability and eventually decide to loose the battle to live and fight another day. It is not binary output. There is also Tomorrow.