Abandon Hope All Ye Tried in Japan - The Daily Beast
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Japan’s criminal justice system has a stunning 99 per cent conviction rate (which gives ironic new meaning to the sobriquet “the one percent”), and that could be because it’s just so wonderfully efficient. But, no. Five years after an effort at major reforms began, it’s clear that those stats have less to do with efficient law enforcement than with forced confessions, trumped up charges, professional judges who have no common sense, and gross prosecutorial misconduct.
Japanese courts operate on the principle of “presumed guilty until proven guilty.”
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