# The Department of Justice bringing charges against David Morens caused David Morens to plead guilty.
*Canonical page:* https://truthscore.com/claim/the-department-of-justice-bringing-charges-against-david-morens-caused--a95fe437
*Numbers under lens:* **Evidence-weighted** (`log-odds@1`)
*Machine twins:* https://truthscore.com/claim/the-department-of-justice-bringing-charges-against-david-morens-caused--a95fe437.md · JSON at https://truthscore.com/api/v1
The Department of Justice bringing charges against David Morens caused David Morens to plead guilty.

## How it was derived

Nobody asserted this. Scheme **cause-effect** v1, depth 1.

**Premises**

- [The Department of Justice brought charges against David Morens in April.](https://truthscore.com/claim/1730c251)
- [David Morens pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the U.S. government, a felony punishable by a maximum prison sentence of five years.](https://truthscore.com/claim/b1d6d7d2)

**Critical questions**

- [open] [Could the outcome have arisen from another cause?](https://truthscore.com/claim/0e404681)
- [open] [Is the causal generalisation itself well supported?](https://truthscore.com/claim/93538a1f)
- [open] [Did the outcome actually follow the event in time?](https://truthscore.com/claim/1e743cac)