Courts of first instance find 97% of defendants guilty

Last year, 552 of the 18,514 defendants were cleared of charges, which makes 3 percent of all defendants, reads the report of operations of prosecutors.

The indicator does not differ much from the 2012-2015 statistics.

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According to the report, courts satisfied two in three appeals pleas and half of all appeals in cassation filed by prosecutors in 2016.

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