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Anyone have a good source on the false-conviction AND false-acquittal rates in the U.S. justice system? It's not especially important, I was just rewatching 12 angry men and was curious about it. Some quick googling says the false-conviction rate is estimated somewhere around 4% to 15%, but any attempts to find false-acquittal rates just talks about false-conviction rates. I understand that in practice that would be extremely hard to measure, because when somebody gets a not-guilty verdict and then new evidence comes out the government can't relitigate and then find them guilty in the same way they can for a false conviction. But informally you could still try to get a ballpark guess. Is it on the order of 4-15% also? 50%? 90%? Do we have any idea what fraction of people who actually committed a crime and choose to go to trial instead of plea-bargaining end up getting lucky and going free anyway?
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