High conviction rates are not bad. A low rate would likely mean that lots of innocent people are being made to face trial. Alternately, it could be a sign of in

High conviction rates are not bad. A low rate would likely mean that lots of innocent people are being made to face trial. Alternately, it could be a sign of incompetence. It is easy to make the rate low: prosecute based on mere suspicion, or have the prosecutor be a person who barely graduated from law school.