Timeline for Why is the conviction rate in North America and Japan so high?
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| Mar 31, 2023 at 14:31 | comment | added | ohwilleke | @KevinKeane "I think the conviction rate must be based not on the total number of cases, but on the number of cases that go to trial?" No. This is not the case. So, plea bargaining rates are critical to determining the conviction rate. | |
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| Mar 31, 2023 at 14:07 | comment | added | Jirka Hanika | @OldAccount2005 - Not futile, but inefficient for both parties. Plea bargain is a mutual discount on the time spent in the court / in the jail - assuming that the result of the trial is well predictable. | |
| Mar 31, 2023 at 8:48 | comment | added | Trish | @KevinKeane Plea bargains technically start the trial, but end with the bargain the moment the trial begins. so on a technicality, you can not discount them. Also, conviction for the statistics is found guilty of any of the charged crimes. If you are charged with the whole book and one section sticks, you are a +1 on convictions, not a +N on the non-guilty count. | |
| Mar 31, 2023 at 5:52 | comment | added | Kevin Keane | I think the conviction rate must be based not on the total number of cases, but on the number of cases that go to trial? Otherwise, plea bargains would muddy the water - they would probably lower the conviction rate, because most plea bargains involve dropping some charges (so the prosecutor wouldn't get a conviction on those). | |
| Mar 31, 2023 at 2:04 | comment | added | user49663 | in easy cases where a plea bargain is non favourable , is a trial futile ? | |
| Mar 31, 2023 at 1:57 | comment | added | ohwilleke | @OldAccount2005 Close cases go to trial. Easy cases plea bargain. | |
| Mar 31, 2023 at 1:32 | comment | added | user49663 | and the opposite of that aren't ? or they are too ? | |
| Mar 30, 2023 at 21:09 | comment | added | ohwilleke | @OldAccount2005 No. The cases that go to trial are usually the ones where the evidence is not overwhelming. | |
| Mar 30, 2023 at 18:28 | comment | added | user49663 | is it also true that most of the cases that go to trial have overwhelming evidence against the defendants which is also why conviction rate is high ? | |
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| Mar 30, 2023 at 15:49 | history | answered | ohwilleke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |