New York Times managed this with eloquence.

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    10 months ago

    Doesn’t that article indicate that if you go to trial you have about a 25% chance of being acquitted?

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      10 months ago

      In the Pew Research article? I arrived at a trial acquittal rate of about 17%.

      In fiscal year 2022, only 290 of 71,954 defendants in federal criminal cases – about 0.4% – went to trial and were acquitted, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the latest available statistics from the federal judiciary. Another 1,379 went to trial and were found guilty (1.9%).

      While that’s still about 1 chance in 5, that’s still some really bad odds when it comes to the matter of possibly being imprisoned. I imagine most Americans think they’d have better odds than that, but the data shows otherwise, to a scary degree.