Kim Ogg blames the Judges . . . yet again
It's just so damn hard being a prosecutor these days. At least, it is in Harris County. It was so much easier back when I was there. Our judges were almost ALL former prosecutors. The rulings all went our way. We had people who trained us on how to try cases. We went to trial a lot. We won a lot. It was crazy! When I asked my old division chief researched what the win/loss ratio was during our tenure at the Office back in the day, she told me I learned that it was somewhere in the low to mid-90% win rate. These days, those stats are a bit different. My friend, Jeff Ross, at his Show Me the Justice blog keeps a running tab of the win/loss column. Here are the current stats for 2022 as of this writing: That translates into a little better than 67% win rate for the State. If this was a report card, it would be a failing grade. A quick glance at the wins and losses for last week over at Show Me the Justice profile five guilty verdicts for the State and seven not guilty