My understanding is that the statistics you provided do not apply to federal court. As I understand it, this Marcus going to be tried in federal court. In any

My understanding is that the statistics you provided do not apply to federal court. As I understand it, this Marcus going to be tried in federal court. In any case, the United States has the second highest incarceration rate in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera... Either the US has the second highest rate of criminal activity in the world or an unusually high rate of wrongful convictions. When Saddam Hussein won 99.96% percent of the vote in the 1995 election, we said "The fix is in" but when federal prosecutors get a 99.8% conviction rate, we say that they must be really great at their jobs! We have a moral obligation to subject the criminal justice to serious scrutiny since so many lives are at stake - not just repeat some platitudes about how the system is stacked in favor of the defendants (not saying you were doing that but the OP certainly was).