[Little Ray]

First, the number of innocent people who actually go to trial for criminal offenses is practically zero.

That has to be one of the silliest statements I have EVER read. Where do you get that idea?

[wideawake]

How many convictions as a percentage of cases have been overturned?

Far less than 1%.

And the vast majority of overturned convictions are overturned on technicalities - custody of evidence, improper mirandizing, procedural flaws, etc. - not because the defendant was innocent.

And, as Robert Morgenthau showed us in the Central Park rape incident, people who are totally guilty can be proclaimed innocent after the fact - in other words, some of those overturned convictions were falsely overturned.

Apparently you watch far too much TV. My wife was a criminal attorney and she'll tell you that Law and Order is just a TV show.