acquittals

If prosecutors saw acquittals as failure on their part, and need to re-consider their world-view, that would work.

To date that has never occured, all impeachment trials against a President to date have concluded in acquittals.

On the other hand, outright acquittals are very low in Germany, as well (as they should be).

But most of them did involve absolute acquittals, you can believe that, but they can't be proved.

That was the lasting legacy of the Rodney King acquittals: you can do what you want if you're a cop.

Jurors cannot legally be punished for their verdicts, judges cannot direct verdicts in criminal trials, and acquittals cannot be appealed.

The way our courts work, acquittals are expensive and actively discouraged, and there is almost no chance of jury nullification.

You have to look at convictions, acquittals, and dismissals to form an accurate assessment of the outcome of criminal prosecutions.

As usual though, rebuttals/acquittals/etc never get as much traction as the original bs or accusations...

To a propagandized society, yes, that the revolutionary truth about the initial acquittals.

In modern Russia there are a lot of people suffering because court system is fucked up: 99%+ of court verdict are convictions(<1% acquittals).

I don't know of any absolute acquittals but I do know of many times when a judge has been influenced.

However, I do believe "Not Proven" is more palatable than "Not Guilty"; both are acquittals.

That seems a pretty staggering number of acquittals for "show trials," if you're using "show trial" in its normal sense, where a guilty verdict is a foregone conclusion.

If you're charged with 13 felonies in federal court and manage to get yourself acquitted from twelve of them --- meaning, in essence, that 92% of the prosecution's claims about you were false --- not only do those acquittals not damage the credibility of the prosecution at sentencing, but because sentencing is based in part on "relevant behavior" not heard at trial, those 12 acquitted charges can come back on you.

But with cases that basically didn't conclude either way, non-convictions that are also non-acquittals, such as mistrials, vacated convictions, cases thrown out for procedural reasons, etc., the government is free to bring the charges again, on the theory that the first "jeopardy" hasn't really concluded properly, with either an acquittal or a conviction.

Acquittals are less likely to make front pages than acquittals.

Acquittals in China are quite rare, for instance.