Erma Faye Stewart plea bargain save time by not having to await a trial. “On Nov. 2, 2000, Erma Faye Stewart, then 30, a single mother of two, was arrested. Regina Kelly, a waitress, who was 24 at the time and a single mother of four, was also arrested. The arrests were part of a big drug sweep based on the word of a confidential informant who later would be proven unreliable. He implicated 25 men and two women in felony drug distribution charges” (Frontline, The Plea, July 2004). Due to Stewart desired to see her two children, and being afraid to be by herself in jail she took a plea bargain. This convicted her of “delivery of a controlled substance of more than four grams in a drug-free zone. She was sentenced to 10 years probation and was