Plaxico Burress picked a club in the wrong borough to dance around with an illegal gun.
Prosecutors in Manhattan have the highest conviction rate among the city’s five boroughs against people collared in second-degree gun possession cases.
About 22% of Manhattan defendants get convicted on that charge, according to a News analysis of state Division of Criminal Justice data from 2003 to 2007. The conviction rate hovered around 10% in three other boroughs: 9% in Staten Island, 10% in the Bronx and 12% in Queens. Brooklyn had the lowest conviction rate at 7%.
Citywide, 11.4% of the 9,729 defendants charged with second-degree gun possession were actually convicted of that charge, which carries a mandatory 3-1/2 year sentence. Read more..
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