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Is America’s conviction rate really 99.5%?

Nov 5, 2012 · 9 min · 9.1 MB
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Conrad Black has claimed that 99.5% of prosecution cases in America end up in convictions. Is it really this high? We try to estimate how this compares to the number of convictions in other parts of the world.