>> The CPS do not prosecute anything unless they feel they have more than a 50/50
>> chance of success, although,my suspicion is that the 50/50 figure is actually greater than that.
So they still anticipate they'll lose some such cases? What's the 'raw' conviction rate for defended trials on indictment - I suspect 20-30% are acquitted across the board and without the complications involved in historic cases.
>> Then there's the likely public/press scrutiny in a high profile case, where you'd think The
>> CPS would indulge in a bit of backside covering...and yet they still keep losing case
>> after case.
I'm struggling for a specific word here but scrutiny in the popular press (OK I mean the Mail) tends to amount to condemnation whatever.
If the CPS had not prosecuted DLT the feature would have been about 'victims' betrayed.
Had he been found guilty there was a headline and interminable pages already typeset describing the 'bearded pervert' and setting out dozens more barely substantiated allegations about his activities.
Not guilty then it was the sympathetic stuff about the wrongly accused popular DJ and the personal and professional cost of his 'unjustified victimisation'.
The public services cannot win in such a twisted arena. WP must have some inkling of that from treatment of the MPS.
I'm still waiting for a post forensically refuting my contention that CPS had, post Savile etc, no alternative but to proceed.
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Thu 17 Apr 14 at 20:54
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