> Federal prosecutor success rate is over > 90%
Prosecutors pick their cases. Defense doesn't. The cases that aren't 90%+ sure aren't charged.
Prosecutors pick their cases. Defense doesn't. The cases that aren't 90%+ sure aren't charged.
Prosecutors will often lower charges to ones where it can be tried without a jury too
it should be about 50% conviction rate so that juries dont go in with non-evidence that the case is good because the feds thought it should go to court
And you think that benefits defendants how???
That is, yes, a ~50% conviction rate would be decent evidence that the Justice system is neither over-aggressive or under-aggressive in pursuing protection.
If it were an explicit goal, it could not serve that purpose any longer.