Thursday, November 15, 2007

Number of Acquittals in Court Cases Increases Greatly

The Council for the Administration of Justice has found that there has been a steep increase in the number of acquittals in criminal cases since September 2005, when there was a Parliamentary debate about a misjudgment in a murder case and the wrong person was found guilty. Until then the rate acquittals had been stable at about 4%. This has now risen to 7%. Other possible reasons for the increase in acquittals include a decline in the quality of detective work.

www.nrc.nl/binnenland/article820180.ece/Toename_van_vrijspraak_in_strafzaken

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Another tidbid for BNN, courtesy of Haaretz:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/924989.html

Unknown said...

That's tidbit, of course.