When the feds draft something, it results in a conviction rate over 94%.
Your figures aren’t quite correct, judging from a Department of Justice website I just visited.
Believe what you want. My percentage is based on a couple of decades, not a single year cherry picked....(pun)
I wasn't quibbling about the negligible difference between 90% and 94%. You missed the point. Even assuming 94% convictions, my bigger point is that most are obtained through confession/plea bargain.
But when you isolate the cases where the defendant fights back and moves to go to trial, the numbers are DECIDEDLY different, and that was my point in reference to Vick.
The point I illustrated, using 2004 numbers (they were the first ones I found on a google search, but they are indicative of year to year pattern), would stand up for any of the years you're referring to as well.