Previous studies had testified to the effectiveness of confessions in swaying juries, and even though this confession was communicated secondhand by someone the jurors were prompted to view as unreliable, the strength of the confession dramatically increased the conviction rate.
The Justice Verma Committee, a three-member panel of jurists established to review sexual assault laws, submitted a detailed report to the government and eventually informed amendments that expanded the legal definition of rape and increased the sentence for convictions in sexual assault cases.
She has increased the felony conviction rate, secured an 85% conviction rate for homicides, took more gun cases to trial and doubled the conviction rate in felony gun trials, from 43% in 2003 to 90% in 2006 to name a few.
The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) argues that the law needs to be changed in order to increase the chance of conviction, as police forces come under increasing pressure to bring Britain's first case against a practitioner.
The Home Office does, after all, want us to believe that our system delivers justice, and as far as I know, ministers have not pledged to increase the rate of conviction for false allegations, whereas they have for rape.
Vera Baird, police and crime commissioner for Northumbria, said: "It is straightforward to increase the percentage of convictions to prosecutions – only take the certainties to court.
I trust that the government's review of Scottish criminal law and practice under Lord Carloway will see us retain our strong safeguards against miscarriages of justice and not legislate merely to increase the number of convictions.
"This new unit will have the powers and funding it needs to increase the prosecutions and convictions of Britain's worst employers: those who exploit workers and drag down the wages of everyone else".
