Only 2% of federal criminal defendants went to trial in 2018, and most who did were found guilty
Trials are rare in the federal criminal justice system: Just 2% of criminal defendants went to trial in fiscal 2018. Acquittals are even rarer.
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Trials are rare in the federal criminal justice system: Just 2% of criminal defendants went to trial in fiscal 2018. Acquittals are even rarer.
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Depression is rising among American teenagers, and teen girls are particularly likely to have had recent depressive episodes.
Couples who meet online are more likely than those who meet offline to be diverse by some measures – but this can be explained by age.
Those 60 and older now spend more than half of their daily leisure time, four hours and 16 minutes, in front of screens.
More than one-in-five voting members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate are racial or ethnic minorities.
While women are still underrepresented in top corporate jobs, there has been a small increase in the share of women executives in such positions over the past decade.
English language learners in U.S. K-12 public schools are a diverse group from many different states and native language backgrounds.
Despite some ups and downs over the past several decades, today’s real average wage in the U.S. has about the same purchasing power it did 40 years ago. And most of what wage gains there have been have flowed to the highest-paid tier of workers.
St. Louis led the nation with 66.1 murders per 100,000 people in 2017. It was followed by Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
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