The vast majority of Federal defendants were charged with non-political crimes AND plead out because they are guilty as hell. The ones that go to trial were either crazy or did not like the sentences proposed by the prosecutors. The 1% statistic is meaningless in this case.
Link: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/06/14/fewer-than-1-of-defendants-in-federal-criminal-cases-were-acquitted-in-2022/
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