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99.4 percent conviction rate? That sounds very suspicious to me. Btw, strange that Japan is called as 'Western' - perhaps the better term is OECD? Same goes fo

by sn41 5y ago

99.4 percent conviction rate? That sounds very suspicious to me. Btw, strange that Japan is called as 'Western' - perhaps the better term is OECD? Same goes for NZ, I guess.

aunty_helen 5y ago
???? NZ is a first world British colony, same as USA, Canada and the closest neighbour, geographically and culturally, Australia.
- sn41 5y ago
  Yeah, but geographically it is quite east of even Japan.
  - ot 5y ago
    Or west of the US.
- forty 5y ago
  I think parents comment is just about the fact that Japan and NZ are at the very East side of European maps, which is why it might be surprising to tag them Western.
fouric 5y ago
An article linked in another comment in this thread[1] implies that this is because Japanese prosecutors pressure everyone, even innocents, into confession[2]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27827906 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27827906 [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/world/asia/11japan.html https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/world/asia/11japan.html
chmod775 5y ago
> 99.4 percent conviction rate? There's commonly two cited reasons for that: - Prosecutors won't even charge you unless they're completely convinced they've got an open-and-shut case. - Because of this, judges are likely to assume you are guilty if charged. Additionally, wrongful convictions are extremely embarrassing for judges, prosecutors, and their offices. For this reason they are unlikely to admit mistakes and other judges are under extreme pressure not to overturn convictions.