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0 pointstoast02y ago0 comments

You're already quite a bit down the funnel if you're talking about % of cases.

If the feds have a high bar before opening a case, it's not immediately unreasonable that most of the cases are managed with plea bargains.

It might be better to look at the process beginning with arrests or beginning with investigations.

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flir2y ago

In the Horizon Post Office case in the UK[1], over 700 individuals were convicted based on false accounting data.

I can't find what percentage of that total pleaded guilty, but I did find[2]: "Of the 39 successful appellants in the Post Office Scandal, 35 had pleaded guilty to at least one charge against them."

Personally, I'm not feeling 100% confident in the adversarial system right now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal [2] https://evidencebasedjustice.exeter.ac.uk/false-guilty-pleas...

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