Compare and contrast legal sufficiency policy and trial sufficiency policy.

What will be an ideal response?


Prosecutors operating under the legal sufficiency policy accept all cases in which the legal elements of the crime are present. Because prosecutors operating under this policy do not necessarily "screen out" cases where the evidence is weak, there is both a high proportion of cases that are accepted for prosecution and a large percentage of cases that are dismissed at preliminary hearings and trials. Prosecutors operating under a trial sufficiency policy, on the other hand, evaluate cases in terms of their likelihood of conviction at trial; they file charges only if the odds of conviction at trial are good (see "Charging Policies in Sexual Assault Cases in Los Angeles" for an example of this type of policy).

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