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: Legal Pad | LAShe says/he says/DOJ says in DA race conviction rate dispute
By Richard Binder
The district attorney race in Sonoma County is heating up over conviction rates.
Challenger Jill Ravitch says statistics show incumbent Stephan Passalacqua never scored better than 74 percent from 2003 to 2008, and scored at 62 percent in 2007. Advertisements for Passalacqua claim an 88 percent conviction rate in 2009.
Passalacqua says the number comes from internal records and reflects only felony cases that went to trial. Overall, he said his felony conviction rate for all arrests for 2009 was about 79 percent.
The Department of Justice's figures are different, reporting Sonoma County at 66 percent in 2006 and 62.2 percent the following year. However, the DOJ cautions its stats can be unreliable at the county level.
Conviction rates are just the latest in a series of jabs between Passalacqua and Ravitch. Full story here.
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on February 16, 2010 (boomark / email).
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