Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Some real 'conviction rate' numbers

See question #8-- the Sun says of the current State's Attorney's conviction rate:
478 murder cases were adjudicated in Baltimore in 2006-2008. Of those, nearly 40 percent resulted in not guilty verdicts, dropped charges or pleas or convictions on lesser charges. Among cases that went to trial, prosecutors' record of getting murder convictions was about 50-50.
... pity the intern had to pore over death's three-ring binder to crunch those numbers!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Only a 30% conviction rate for murder! And the ones that do get convicted get 10 year sentences???? No wonder no one is afraid of committing murder. It's just shocking. Shameful.