Comments on: Not Guilty http://www.ippoippo.net/blog/archives/2007-04-24/not-guilty/ Sen ri no michi mo ippô yori hajimaru. Sat, 08 May 2010 13:19:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ken http://www.ippoippo.net/blog/archives/2007-04-24/not-guilty/comment-page-1/#comment-4991 Ken Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:42:59 +0000 http://www.ippoippo.net/blog/archives/2007-04-24/not-guilty/#comment-4991 I guess there's something like a 87% rate of confessions in the event of arrest. As you mention, the conviction rate is close to 98%...which seems to pretty much mean everyone confesses and out of the 13% who don't, few of those go to trial. I don't think that judges in Japan make statements with their rulings, but here I kind of wish it had been one; the police and prosecutors should have had this guy and pretty much everyone knows he did it. They need to do something about investigative skills and stop relying on confessions... I guess there’s something like a 87% rate of confessions in the event of arrest. As you mention, the conviction rate is close to 98%…which seems to pretty much mean everyone confesses and out of the 13% who don’t, few of those go to trial.

I don’t think that judges in Japan make statements with their rulings, but here I kind of wish it had been one; the police and prosecutors should have had this guy and pretty much everyone knows he did it. They need to do something about investigative skills and stop relying on confessions…

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