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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“isn’t that true for lawyers in basically any country, anywhere?” No, not exactly.
We (US lawyer/former prosecutor) will take cases that we are pretty sure we will win but the defense would never go to trial on a 100% loser (for their side) because the plea offer is usually lower.
Beyond that, Japan has this strange phenonium where the citizens basically view it as if the state brings charges the person is obviously guilty of the crime and the state is always right …to the point there was a famous prosecutor who said years after the fact that he knew the person was innocent but he condemned him to death anyway. I wish I remembered the name, I saw it on a documentary.
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