Comments on: Why the Why? https://bennettandbennett.com/blog/why-the-why Houston Criminal Defense Lawyer Sat, 29 Mar 2025 16:28:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: A Voice of Sanity https://bennettandbennett.com/blog/why-the-why#comment-4269 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:03:57 +0000 https://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2009/01/why-the-why.html#comment-4269 In reply to Mark Bennett.

Much appreciated. I had to fish this out of Google’s cache.

]]> By: Mark Bennett https://bennettandbennett.com/blog/why-the-why#comment-4268 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:24:34 +0000 https://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2009/01/why-the-why.html#comment-4268 In reply to A Voice of Sanity.

Quite right. Here’s the abstract of the paper being described, and here are my comments on it from the time.

]]> By: A Voice of Sanity https://bennettandbennett.com/blog/why-the-why#comment-4267 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:16:04 +0000 https://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2009/01/why-the-why.html#comment-4267 “The error rate is huge — probably between .8% and 8%”

Worse than that. See
US juries get verdict wrong in one of six cases: study

Quote:
The study, which looked at 290 non-capital criminal cases in four major cities from 2000 to 2001, is the first to examine the accuracy of modern juries and judges in the United States.

It found that judges were mistaken in their verdicts in 12 percent of the cases while juries were wrong 17 percent of the time.

More troubling was that juries sent 25 percent of innocent people to jail while the innocent had a 37 percent chance of being wrongfully convicted by a judge.

The good news was that the guilty did not have a great chance of getting off. There was only a 10 percent chance that a jury would let a guilty person free while the judge wrongfully acquitted a defendant in 13 percent of the cases.

]]> By: Glen R. Graham https://bennettandbennett.com/blog/why-the-why#comment-4266 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:27:10 +0000 https://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2009/01/why-the-why.html#comment-4266 Since you are Houston’s Best Criminal Defense Attorney, and Houston’s Best Criminal Lawyer, I know your blog will exceed my expectations, but your web site is slipping on https://www.google.com but keep up the good work and good writing and it is better than most of the other stuff on the internet anyway.

It has been said that if you went to the FAA and you told them that an error rate of only two or three per cent was acceptable and that every 2 or 3 planes were going to crash — they would think you were crazy. In the criminal justice system some argue that an error rate of two or three is acceptable, but if it happened to you, your family, or someone you care about, an error rate of two or three per cent would not be acceptable and should not be acceptable. Innocent people should not suffer because someone thinks an error rate is acceptable to them because they don’t have to suffer the error.

Sincerely,
Glen R. Graham, Tulsa Criminal Defense Attorney, Tulsa, Oklahoma

]]> By: Josh Cooley https://bennettandbennett.com/blog/why-the-why#comment-4265 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:54:47 +0000 https://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2009/01/why-the-why.html#comment-4265 Wonderful post. A must read for all those prosecutors and defense attorneys, true believers and apathetics, who wage war in the comment sections of blogs like this one across the net.

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