Your article says that a study of every legal case since WWII found that it was due to prosecutors not trying uncertain cases, which would seem to be a good thing for the innocent.
There are criticisms about allegedly forced confessions and such, but that seems to be unrelated to the conviction rate itself.
Fair enough, but that criticism of the conviction rate always stuck out to me--and this is by no means the first time I've heard it repeated--simply because it's one of those cases where there is no right answer.
Your article says that a study of every legal case since WWII found that it was due to prosecutors not trying uncertain cases, which would seem to be a good thing for the innocent.
There are criticisms about allegedly forced confessions and such, but that seems to be unrelated to the conviction rate itself.