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l33tbro on June 19, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Albert Woodfox's Forty Years in Solitary Confineme...

No. I think that gets thrown around more at the legislator level - it's certainly not a KPI or anything.

jacquesm on June 19, 2015 [–]

Interesting, wikipedia has an entry on conviction rate and it specifically mentions 'prosecutor':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate

l33tbro on June 19, 2015 | [–]

Sure. But as I said, it's a descriptor used in reporting- not a target for those in the trenches

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