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Re:Why Innocent People Plead Guilty by honestcoyote on Sunday November 02, 2014 @02:25AM (#8545942)
If a prosecutor's chief career metric is his conviction rate, then he doesn't have much incentive to reelease exonerating evidence.

I wonder if changing the rules would help. Releasing such evidence and causing the case to collapse would not reduce the conviction percentage. Perhaps it could even be counted as a win, increasing the metric, because justice was done.

Re:Why Innocent People Plead Guilty by kansface on Sunday November 02, 2014 @05:32AM (#8546240)
Nope, you have just incentivized prosecutors to release guilty defendants to fix the numbers.