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If a prosecutor's chief career metric is his conviction rate, then he doesn't have much incentive to reelease exonerating evidence. I wonder if changing the ru
by honestcoyote 12y ago
If a prosecutor's chief career metric is his conviction rate, then he doesn't have much incentive to reelease exonerating evidence.
I wonder if changing the rules would help. Releasing such evidence and causing the case to collapse would not reduce the conviction percentage. Perhaps it could even be counted as a win, increasing the metric, because justice was done.
- kansface 12y agoNope, you have just incentivized prosecutors to release guilty defendants to fix the numbers.