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The conviction rate inside U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's Washington office has collapsed so badly that legal experts are calling it "embarrassing," according to a new CNN analysis published Monday.
More than two dozen investigators, former prosecutors, defense attorneys and other legal experts told CNN that Pirro's track record at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia is "essentially unheard of in recent memory."
Federal juries nationwide convict defendants in criminal cases roughly 90 percent of the time. Pirro's office is nowhere close.
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Before a high-profile MS-13 case was retried in April, the DC office had won convictions in only four of the eight federal cases tried before Washington juries since January, CNN's Katelyn Polantz reported. The numbers got worse from there.
Since that MS-13 jury hung, prosecutors have tried nearly a dozen more criminal cases in DC's federal court. Two defendants were acquitted outright. Four trials ended in deadlock, with jurors sending notes saying they had deliberated "hopelessly" and reached complete "impasse."