Was doing some research on the US ''justice'' system and was pretty stunned that there's a 99%+ conviction rate with the feds, and also with the states for example only 3% making it to trial. With the feds 90% pleads guilty and take a plea deal for they're intimidated into it (take 4 years otherwise we push for 40). There's even districts that have a 100% conviction rate. Bottom line is that there's 0 quest for justice in the US. It's purely about getting as many people in prisons to run the system - and has been so for many decades as the stats underline. Also interesting to see that even if you'd be the 0.0000001% that gets acquitted in trial, facing a jury will have thrice as much likelihood of you being convicted. Also underlines the retarded nature of a jury trial: get a bunch of emotional low IQ normies deciding someone's fate without any competency to even make the call, most likely being swayed by how someone comes across, talks or is clothed.
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Between guilty pleas and trials, the conviction rate was 99.8% in U.S. federal courts in 2015: 126,802 convictions and 258 acquittals. That wasn’t an anomaly. In 2014 the conviction rate was 99.76% and in 2013 it was 99.75%. There is nothing new about the high conviction rate in federal courts, although it has been consistently rising since 1973. The conviction rate has been above 99% since 2003, above 98% since 1995, above 97% since 1985, above 96% since 1982, above 95% since 1975, and above 94% every years since 1955.[4] As the conviction rate has increased, the number of acquittals has precipitously declined. The 2,371 defendants acquitted in federal court in 1973 was more than the 2,362 defendants acquitted in the six years from 2010 to 2015. That was the case even though in 1973 40,493 defendants were convicted, compared with the 850,365 defendants convicted from 2010 to 2015. Even more graphically, in 1973 there were 17 convictions for every defendant acquitted in federal court, while in 2015 there were 493 convictions for every acquittal. So a federal defendant is now about 2,900% more likely to be convicted than in the early 1970s. Although overall federal courts generate convictions at a remarkable rate, there were twenty federal judicial districts that had a 100% conviction rate in 2015.''
''Data published by the Pew Research Center in
2019 highlighted how
federal prosecutors have a 99.6% conviction rate. To put those numbers in perspective, U.S. Attorneys filed 79,704 cases in 2018. Of those, only 320 resulted in acquittals.
It’s important to remember, however, that many cases end in plea deals — which count as a “win” for the prosecution. Pew Research Center’s data shows that defendants facing federal criminal charges only took their cases to trial at the following rates in 2018:
- Immigration offenses: 1%
- Drug offenses: 2%
- Property offenses: 4%
- Violent crimes: 7%
Pew Research Center’s data also shows that defendants who pursue a trial experience different outcomes based on whether they choose a bench or jury trial. The acquittal rate in bench trials is 38%, whereas it’s 14% for juried trials.''
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