A prosecutor is judged based on his or her success in winning a case, whereas a public defender is evaluated based on the number of cases he or she can get through. Eighty percent of defendants cannot afford a lawyer, and a public defender will routinely have a caseload of more than 100 clients at a time. More than 96% of convictions in the federal system result from guilty pleas rather than decisions by juries, a worrying figure. In Keriks opinion, Nobody is innocent until proven guilty. No one, he said. The defendant is automatically convicted in the court of public opinion.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 19:00:46 +0000
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