I’ve heard people say that lawyers only choose to prosecute cases that they know they might win, but isn’t that true for lawyers in basically any country, anywhere?
EDIT: I meant conviction rate in the title.
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In America, the police have 24 hours to lay a charge. In Japan, they have 23 days. If they don’t get you to sign a confession they probably will let you go. This doesn’t count as a non-conviction because they never charged you so there is no “failure”. So they’ve just redefined the terms to make it look like the system really works. Police will only charge if they’ve got the evidence to lead to a confession. And don’t worry. For those 23 days you’ll be woken up randomly and coerced the whole time to confess. Fun fact: the jails are over crowded now. You’ve really got to try hard to get jail time.
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