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What is the right conviction rate? Your article says that a study of every legal case since WWII found that it was due to prosecutors not trying uncertain case
by Natsu 6y ago
What is the right conviction rate?
Your article says that a study of every legal case since WWII found that it was due to prosecutors not trying uncertain cases, which would seem to be a good thing for the innocent.
There are criticisms about allegedly forced confessions and such, but that seems to be unrelated to the conviction rate itself.
- JohnBooty 6y agoI didn't criticize the Japanese justice system. I said the game was a criticism/parody of the Japanese justice system. I don't have an opinion on the Japanese justice system. I simply do not know enough about it. (Admittedly, I did say it was easy to imagine that some prosecutors might have a bit of a "god" complex...)
- Natsu 6y agoFair enough, but that criticism of the conviction rate always stuck out to me--and this is by no means the first time I've heard it repeated--simply because it's one of those cases where there is no right answer.