Sentences with phrase «conviction rate»

As adults, they had lower conviction rates for violent and drug - related crimes.

We have achieved a 90 percent conviction rate in cases that involve prosecution.

The result has been an increasing conviction rate for offenders (5 %) and a sharp decrease in losses (7 %).

Since the 1970's rape conviction rates have dropped substantially from 30 per cent, for a variety of reasons.

When I took office, we had the worst felony conviction rate in the five boroughs.

Through our partnership with local attorneys, last year we achieved a 95 % conviction rate in our cruelty cases.

His record includes boosting the office's felony conviction rate to the city's top ranks while making tough calls without regard to political fallout.

Consider crime statistics: the data on which a computer will base its predictions may reflect factors logically not connected with particular defendants: arrest patterns that match or do not match the characteristics of the accused person; the impact of poverty or race on conviction rates of people «comparable» to the accused; hard - to - quantify characteristics of accused or convicted people like educational achievement or religious practices.

Investigate suspicious activity and report it in a timely manner, decreasing response time by five minutes and increasing criminal conviction rate by 5 % since 2014

A 2015 study found that adults who had been in the Fast Track intervention group as children had 30 to 40 percent lower conviction rates for violent and drug - related crimes than their peers.

A 100 percent conviction rate of this crime and a seizure rate of over an estimated one (1) million dollars in counterfeit products.

Besides destroying much scholarly work and putting the lie to some of the most fundamental principles of our judicial system, the plot also tells you that those who guess and those who divide are pretty much wrong when they arrive at wrongful conviction rates of 1 or 2 or 3 %.

During David Soares» tenure as DA, the crime rate has risen while conviction rates plummeted.

Although their analysis does not include data after 2004, the researchers note that they doubt that the use of DNA identification technology would have much impact on false conviction rates — because DNA evidence is primarily used in cases such as rape rather than homicide.

Police across England and Wales will have access to head camera technology, used to boost conviction rates in violent crime especially domestic violence.

BY MICHAEL RICONDA New City — The recently - released report for the Rockland County District Attorney's Office's 2012 year revealed the office oversaw significantly higher conviction rates over the course of last year, among other figures.

Mr. Abelove derides the lower conviction rate under Mr. McNally, who was elected in 2007 and restored the reputation of the DA's office before his election to state Supreme Court last year.

This workshop, held in close collaboration with Interpol's Project Predator, is aimed at understanding the extent of illegal trade in the region, assess existing legal systems, identify loopholes and evaluate conviction rates.

Nick played by Jamie Foxx was too concerned about his status and was focused on achieving a high conviction rate so cut deals for criminals that should be locked up for a very long time.

Conviction Rated R for language and some violent images Available on DVD and Blu - ray When a man (Sam Rockwell) is wrongly convicted of first degree murder, his sister (Hilary Swank) puts her life on hold and goes to college and law school in the hope of someday getting him out of prison.

In traditional education settings, the focus has been on IQ skills, however, recent research shows that while IQ might be the strongest predictor of future salary, a person's Emotional Intelligence has a significant impact on predicting life - altering factors including adult conviction rates, substance abuse, and overall health.

Besides, the infringement conviction rate of 35 % seems reasonably high (bearing in mind that the large number of cases which are settled before a written decision is issued are not taken into account in any statistical study).

Compared to appointed counsel, public defenders in Philadelphia reduce their clients» murder conviction rate by 19 % and lower the probability that their clients receive a life sentence by 62 %.

The annual conviction rate was 71 %.

In a speech that pleased anti-rape campaigners, the Tory leader last month set out plans to increase the rape conviction rate, highlighting that three - quarters of raped women do not report the crime and only 5.7 per cent of reported rapes result in a conviction.

He notes that he could boost IMETs» conviction rate by taking on only slam - dunk cases, but argues that would be inappropriate.

Town Attorney Amy Mele said he has a very high conviction rate for his tax certiorari cases and that is what we go by.

In an assessment of the strategy to improve the way prosecutors tackle cases of violence against women and girls, Starmer will reveal that in the past year the Crown Prosecution Service has reported its highest conviction rate for domestic violence.

The study's authors say that part of the wrongful conviction rate is that white people have more trouble identifying black people and because of that may serve as poor eyewitnesses to a crime.

As Staten Island D.A., Donovan, has the best felony conviction rate in the city and created the borough's first witness protection program.

Simon, a professor of law and psychology at the University of Southern California, says that the false conviction rate, based on exoneration data from capital murder cases, is estimated to be near 5 percent, although that figure represents only a fraction of those wrongly imprisoned.

In 2015, between guilty pleas and trial verdicts, the United States government had a 98.8 percent conviction rate for all criminal matters.

Such capabilities could become a crucial component of fighting human trafficking, a crime with low conviction rates, primarily because of strategies that traffickers use to disguise their victims» identities (pdf).

Mr. Gentile showed the graphs to reporters after the event, which illustrated that Mr. Donovan's violent felony conviction rate is just one - tenth of a percent lower than that of the Brooklyn district attorney's office.

In 2014 - 15 the NCA was involved in over 3300 arrests, both domestically and abroad, achieving a 91 % conviction rate of cases going to court in the UK.

His boss (David Strathairn) hates to see him go, and tells us of Beachum's 97 percent conviction rate in the process.

Still, despite what he feels is a weak case against him, he thinks the odds are he'll be found guilty, at least during this first trial; Japan, which has a more than 99 % conviction rate, is also one of a few countries that allows prosecutors to appeal an acquittal twice.

«When I became director, our conviction rate was far too low, with an average five - year conviction rate of 61 %,» sniffed incoming head Richard Alderman in the SFO's most recent annual report.

The conviction rate that left the SFO so embarrassed would be a striking improvement for the IMETs.

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.

The Chinese court, which has a 99 percent conviction rate, described the trialas «open,» allowing the court to live Tweet the proceedings, though the posts were filtered.

The government has urged David Cameron to distance himself from the comments, which come weeks after the Tory leader said more must be done to increase the rape conviction rate.

Mrs Sowah expressed worry that out of the cases that were sent to court for prosecution, the convictions rate was low.

This is lower than the conviction rate for the normal population, in which 68 % of felony defendants who aren't police officers are convicted, and 48 % are incarcerated.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is considering halving the sentence of convicted rapists if they admit their guilt before trial, thereby saving money, increasing the conviction rate and sparing the victim the ordeal of the court case.

Since they are not Israeli citizens, they are subject to military courts, which have nearly a 100 % conviction rate.

Our conviction rate in federal courts is actually closer to 93 %.