A Little Wiser: Wrongful Conviction
Oct 21, 2020•19 min
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Various studies estimate that 5% of all prisoners are innocent. DNA evidence has exonerated several hundred people since it was introduced in 1989. These exonerations have helped identify disturbing trends and causes in wrongful conviction, the leading being the unreliability of eye-witness testimony. So why, despite all the news about misidentifications, do we continue to put such profound faith in the memory of eye-witnesses?
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