Just look on here for examples. Too hard to convict for rape? We need to make it easier to get a conviction. The only way to do that is to lower the standards.
How does that work? Do we go from "reasonable doubt" to "vague suspicion"?
If more convictions are the goal, the way to do that is better police work and better prosecutors.
I actually know who was wrongfully convicted and spent 16 years in prison for rape. The case was fairly simple. On a summer night, a man climbed in the open bedroom window of a 13 year old girl. He raped the girl and then left with her transistor radio. A few blocks away, he dropped the radio. Another man comes along and finds the radio. A few minutes later, he is stopped and questioned by police. They take him to the victims house, where she identifies her radio, and the man in the car as her attacker. The man is convicted on this evidence.
Years later, DNA shows he is not the rapist. The real rapist has been running around free for 16 years. The victim, who is now 30 years old still insists she identified the correct man.
Wrongful convictions are not the result of vindictive women. They are the result of incomplete and incompetent investigations.
