The wait, which can often be years, is especially troubling because the "acquittal rate is almost 90 percent," said Mr. Ahmadi, the retired chief justice.

However, the acquittal rates are abnormally high, as acknowledged by the prime minister and home minister (quoted above).

As a whole, defense lawyers engaged against his prosecutors achieved one of the lowest acquittal rates in the country.

Of those who did eventually end up in court, the acquittal rate by March 1985 was 24 per cent(Wallington, 1985: 150).

Others say the acquittal rate was comparatively high in tribunals because the cases were not screened, as they are in federal court.

With regard to acquittal rates in the magistrates' courts, our data are too uncertain to draw firm conclusions as they are incomplete.

Many stories about the CSI effect assume that there has been an increase in acquittal rates, though this is often based entirely on anecdotal evidence.

The acquittal rate has been 20 percent which suggests a large number of trials were not well-founded.

That acquittal rate is still low by American standards.

He defended his first murder case in 1950 and by the end of his career had achieved an acquittal rate of 80 to 90 per cent.