Conviction rate.
Can anyone blame Nissan CEO running to Lebanon?
I dont! It’s above 90% or something,
I don't blame him either, and the justice system here is awful. That said, let's compare:
"In the
United States federal court system, the conviction rate rose from approximately 75 percent to approximately 85% between 1972 and 1992.
[13] For 2012, t
he US Department of Justice reported a 93% conviction rate"
Meanwhile in Japan:
"The conviction rate is 99.3%. By only stating this high conviction rate it is often misunderstood too high- however,
this high conviction rate drops significantly when accounting for the fact that Japanese prosecutors drop roughly half the cases they are given.
In Japan, unlike in some other democracies, arrests require permission of judges except for cases such as arresting someone while committing a crime. Only significant cases with sufficient evidence are subject to indictment, since becoming a party to a criminal trial imposes a burden on a suspect;
Japan’s indictment ratio is only 37%—“99.3%” is the percentage of convictions divided by the number of indictments, not the criminals. As such, the conviction rate is high."
On top of that, you are probably about 100 times (let's be conservative and say 50 times) more likely to be arrested in the US than in Japan. So your odds of ever having to deal with jails, prosecutors and the courts here are very low, while the US has more prisoners than any nation in the world.
Ghosn was a good example of what's bad - Nissan execs conspiring with prosecutors to eliminate a foreign rival.
