www.post-gazette.com/pg/...

Nationally, for fiscal year 2004, 95.5 percent of the 51,666 convictions were reached through guilty pleas.

That means that only 2,316 U.S. District Court cases across the country went to trial.

that's just fucking gross.

that is awful. certain swift and severe punishment over rights to fair trial :| second one won't load on my phone, i'll read it later

yeahhhh fucking lame.

What i think is shitty.. is.. HOW do they always lose the key evidence in high profile cases? Like seriously? JFK shit is missing.

The Black Dahlia stuff is also missing.

You would think with shit being high profile.. they'd take EXTRA care of it.

you know good and well the answer to that question.

i know.. but its still bullshit!