Now Trump made it sound like he'd have to plea for it.
The new rules mean that when defendants appear in court to submit their plea, it is no longer solely a consideration of innocence or guilt - it has become a risk calculation.
This seismic change to the criminal justice system, which came into effect on 13 April, means that when defendants appear in court to submit their plea, it is no longer solely a consideration of innocence or guilt.
If it's a plea, it needs to up the ante over the course of its pleading.
Insisting they can get to their midwife is no entitled plea – it is a plea for basic human rights.
B&B Amusement said it agreed to the plea because it could no longer afford to defend itself against the "state's unlimited resources".
Writing in his memoirs, Mr Tollman explained why he agreed to the plea bargain: "It was galling to listen to these vast sums of money being referred to as though they were merely numbers and to the fact that I had agreed to hand all this money to the US Government.
Had I made the decision then which I have made now, neither defendant would have been called to answer the indictment, nor even to enter a plea to it.
They do it because they don't want to wait around for the big corps to listen to their pleas and it's fun for them.
That represents a turnaround for District Attorney Johnson, who had a reputation for being bureaucratic and inflexible when it came to plea deals, once barring prosecutors from accepting pleas in felony cases unless they included the top charge.
