Sunday, August 12, 2007

Prosecution success rate: 82% or 50%

Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail said his prosecution team had 82.3% success rate - 64% are guilty pleas (the defendant admitted their wrongdoings because there is clear facts and evidence of unlawful acts) which Abdul Gani claimed that it was due to the results of good investigation and prosecution. It would be great if Gani would reveal the winning cases category - inchoate offences, minor offences or Homicide, drug and rape offences. If the winning cases are 80% of those inchoate offences of which those who pleaded guilty were more than prepared to pay a fine which would not act as deterrent to them, then the success is surreal or fictional.

However, on further analysis, if we take that 64% of cases of guilty pleas away, you will find that the prosecution success rate on cases which was contested is only 18.3% out of the 36%, which gives Gani's team a mere 50% success rate. This interprets to 1:2 success rate, which also means the criminals have a 50% chance to get scot-free.

Noritta had mati katak, Norjan also mati katak...

Will Altantunya also mati katak?

Gani said the public are not seeing the big picture. It must be esoteric...

11 comments:

Helen said...

Maverick, do you think bringing back the juries will help? I'd really like to hear your take..

Anonymous said...

'mati katak' should read 'mati katak telanjang'. Even when caught, these frog killers manage to get acquitted

Anonymous said...

who is there to verify all these claims? if we want to verify, then they will say it is a state secret under osa lah!

Anonymous said...

Mr AG, for heaven's sake please step down.

You have lost your credibility and the trust of the rakyat. You only know how to please your political masters.

There are many others who can do a better job.
I just can't understand why a very mediocre fellow like yourself can be appointed to such an important position.
A reward from the last administration for your role in the Anwar's trial?
Tun Mahathir, I respect you for your immense contributions to development of our country but you cannot escape the blame for the current mess. The PM, the cabinet, the judiciary, the police, the ACA and the AG.

Even our ex IGP has nothing nice to say about the current situation in our country.

The future looks uncertain for many of us

Maverick SM said...

Helen,

The jury would also have to depend on the evidence from the prosecution. Even with jury, the conclusion is likely be the same.

The essence of the problem is fundamentally about competence, which is not the necessity in the system.

Misben said...

No action taken on suspects in recent case of False SMS on Azhar converting Muslims to Christianity in Ipoh.

www.benstakes.blogspot.com

Anonymous said...

82% success rate...

i guess its pareto principle at work:

80% - minor cases we prosecuted, but the rest 20% 'big' cases we let off.

Anonymous said...

Now that's what I call criminals profiteering.

Anonymous said...

Norita: Lost
Norjan: Lost
Eric Chia: Lost
Koh Kim Teck: Lost
Altantuya: ?
Need I say more,

Anonymous said...

Yes! 82% successfully screwed up rate.

Anonymous said...

The AG office has seen better times. Same for the Police and ACA office. Hey, dont take this from me. Please read Tun Hanif's column in the Sunday Star. good enough for you all?