Undvik

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wouldn’t it make more sense for Matt Murdock/Daredevil and Foggy Nelson to be prosecutors or civil rights lawyers instead of defense attorneys?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In Japan, the conviction rate when something goes to trial is 99%. The main reason for this is that prosecutors will never bring a case to trial if they are not 100% sure they can win it. This of course has a lot of problems, from difficult to prove crimes like rape never going to trial, to the presumption of innocence when you sit in front of the judge being practically nil, to prosecutors doing everything in their power to convict after a trial starts even if it turns out they were wrong (even by withholding evidence).

  Those are the reasons "innocent until proven guilty" is such an important concept to have, and it's completely incompatible with assuming "the accused is more often than not guilty"