Prior to its enactment. only 64 percent of those apprehended by the Coast Guard were accepted for prosecution. and then only 45 percent of those tried were convicted. In contrast. Coast Guard statistics for 1985 in the seventh district. which is where most of the maritime drug prosecutions occur. indicated that 83 percent of those apprehended were accepted for prosecution. and of those cases. 94 percent resulted in guilty verdicts in Federal court. The law was particularly effective for prosecutions of foreign offenders. who. before 1980. were virtually all deported or repatriated to their countries of origin without punishmentat U.S. taxpayer expense. Despite its clear success. Public Law 96350 has encountered several difficulties in the courtroom.
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