US Criminal Conviction Rates
The cluster centers on discussions of the extremely high conviction rates (often 95-99%) in the US criminal justice system, particularly federal prosecutions, attributing them to selective case pursuit by prosecutors and widespread plea bargains, while debating implications for fairness, innocence, and systemic issues.
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Sucks to be him.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate
Interesting, wikipedia has an entry on conviction rate and it specifically mentions 'prosecutor':https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate
You literally just made that up.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate
Given that the conviction rate exceeds 99% it all seems like splitting hairs -- when you've been charged, you will be sentenced. It seems unlikely that they're just that good at deciding who to charge.
Not really. Federal prosecutors have a 98 percent conviction rate. Combined with long sentences means a lot of ppl just plead guilty even if innocent
This is kind of a nitpick, but U.S. prosecutors also boast 99+% conviction rates. Note that conviction rate is not necessarily indicative of a systems effectiveness (or lack of fairness). Prosecutors only pursue charges in very few cases, and very few of those cases go to trialhttps://www
Conviction by human court has a success rate.
No guilty plea (More than 97 percent of federal criminal convictions, 95 for state) and prosecutor being selective (only prosecutes case that open-and-shut) means very high conviction rate.
99% conviction rate. Nice law but practically, if you are accused you will get convicted. I don't know why they make a mockery of their judicial system. Either a ton of bad guys don't get tried or a ton of innocent people are getting convicted.
The conviction rate in criminal trials should be high, perhaps 90% or higher.A low conviction rate implies that a lot of shaky cases with poor evidence are being brought. This exposes innocent people to the inconvenience and expense of mounting a defense and to the possibility of a false conviction.