Is America’s conviction rate really 99.5%?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
English - November 05, 2012 12:00 - 9 minutes - 8.68 MB - ★★★★★ - 740 ratingsNews Education Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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.