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Re:Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who buil... by btilly on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @07:11PM (#25353508)
By contrast the example of Harris County convinces me that law enforcement prosecutes a lot of shaky cases that they know wouldn't hold up.

See https://www.texastribune.org/2017/03/07/report/ for how there is only one county in the country that actually double checks drug tests after someone has plead guilty. The result is that the one county alone manages to exonerate more people each year than the next three states combined.

There is no reason that I know of to believe that Harris County has an abnormal number of people wrongfully convicted. They are only unusual in figuring that out and turning them free later.

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Re:Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who buil... by tptacek on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @08:01PM (#25353952)
You're not wrong and I feel roughly about prosecutors the way I assume you do. All I'm saying is that the plea deal rate is not an especially good metric; even in optimal circumstances, most charges would plea out.
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