Sentences with phrase «about her conviction rate»

Mark Gonzalez has announced a new bureau to handle domestic violence cases after sharing data about the conviction rate involving those cases during his first year as Nueces County District Attorney.

No, that is defamation of character and that is DA who is more concerned about her conviction rate then the health of her constituents.

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I don't have a ton of conviction about interest rates.

[262] A self - described conviction politician, Thatcher always insisted that she did not care about her poll ratings and pointed instead to her unbeaten election record.

Stu d. 255, 270 (2016)(describing statistically significant results of an experiment in which actual judges were asked to make a ruling about a hypothetical criminal conviction, taking into account both a single precedent and either positive or negative facts about the defendant, and upheld the conviction of the unsympathetic defendant at a rate more than twice as high as that of the sympathetic defendant (87 - 41 %)-RRB-.

The government's avowed determination to eradicate myths about supposedly true victim behaviour, in spite of there being no UK research evidence of a negative impact by such myths on the conviction rate, makes a stark contrast with their apparent insouciance about the potentially negative impact on the conviction rate as a cumulative result of potential jurors reading lurid media accounts of the exposure of false rape claims.

As we have said, the similarity between the jury conviction / acquittal rate for offences of serious violence and that for rape suggests that jurors are not influenced by invalid assumptions about typical rape victim behaviour.

Thus, it stressed, the rate of convictions to offences recorded as rape is currently 5.7 % and by nonchalantly setting this bare statistic alongside the notion that juries are commonly influenced by myths and stereotypes about victim typology, the implied conclusion is reached that convictions by juries remain, as it put it in para 4 of the report, «unacceptably low».

The focus of media attention then was on the supposed link between the poor conviction rate and the alleged diffusion of myths and stereotypes about the behaviour of genuine rape victims, which thus need to be «dispelled» if the conviction rate is to be increased.

Official court statistics for 2006 show that the conviction to acquittal rate for all jury deliberated cases is just about 70 % to 30 %.

A related issue was the government's proposal on 12 January 2006 to introduce to rape trials «generic evidence» about the behaviour of victims, as part of a plan to increase the conviction rate (see Hansard, 12 January 2006 HC Col 424).

Focusing on the relatively simple matter of guilt or innocence; that is simple when compared with sentencing or damages, it is estimated that the error rate for false conviction is about 6 %.

It's a good idea to talk with your provider about how a guilty conviction might affect your premiums, and then start shopping for lower rates online.

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If you plead or are found guilty of a traffic violation, talk with your insurance provider about how the conviction might affect your current rates.