When these political cases, their conviction rate is going to plummet.Neither will make it beyond the pre trial motions to dismiss. They are both utter garbage cases if you read the indictments which is why not one actual prosecutor would do them. They both had the prior professional Prosecutors state there was no cases here.
Terry is what known as 'stuck on stupid' here as he keeps using historical fact while ignoring that things have changed under Trump and Co incompetence.
Yes its true, PRIOR, that DoJ won 98% of their cases as they only brought a tiny percent of cases to court that were vetted as almost sure winners. It is also where the comment 'indict a ham sandwich' came from as they only brought near certain cases to the GJ.
Trump and Co are both incompetent and bringing crazy weak cases. Take the James Comey for example where only 12 of 23 (legal minimum) voted to indict and that is based on one sided presentation (no defense) and on selective disclosure (i bet breaks DOJ rules and gets the Prosecution disbarred) and yet still barely got across the line.
And prior prosecutors would not bring this case because if you can barely get 12 of 23 grand jurors to a MUCH LOWER finding to indict, then the chances of getting all 12 jurors, in a trial to the MUCH HIGHER standard of 'beyond any reasonable' doubt, would be clearly a losing battle to all but the painfully stupid.
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Terry : But... BUT DoJ cases have such a high conviction rate so how could such a historically percentage be abandoned by Trumps DoJ after charging ... I do not understand...
They are already failing to secure indictments, which is rare.