Frequency distribution (%) | |
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The person having close ones in political circles is more likely to be found guilty | 6 |
The person having no close ones in political circles is more likely to be found guilty | 65 |
They both have the same chance of being found guilty / not guilty | 26 |
DK/RA | 3 |
Question text: And finally suppose two people - one of them having close people in political circles, another one having no close ones in political circles - each appear in court, charged with an identical crime they did not commit. Choose an answer from this card to show who you think would be more likely to be found guilty?
Note: These are two separate cases but on the same type of convictions
Within the project “Facilitating Implementation of Reforms in the Judiciary”, implemented by Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC) in cooperation with the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) and Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC), CRRC-Georgia conducted a survey among Georgian-speaking adult residents of Georgia regarding population’s perception of justice and its attitudes towards judges, the court system and knowledge of it.