[lbo-talk] plea agreement stats

[Dennis Claxton]

I found numbers on percentage of convictions by plea 
agreement.  These are from the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice 
Statistics using Bureau of Justice Statistics data:

Felony convictions in state courts 2002--- 95% guilty pleas

http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/pdf/t5462002.pdf

All federal convictions 2003----  96% guilty pleas (72,110 out of 74,850)

http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/pdf/section5.pdf#page=25

(Table 5.22, p. 423)