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Addressing the specific issues surrounding wrongful convictions and their implications for society, Convicted but Innocent includes: survey data concerning the

The American judicial system is far too often a source of injustice for the innocent rather than justice for the guilty. Despite all the alleged protections bui

On January 20, 1984, Earl Washington—defended for all of forty minutes by a lawyer who had never tried a death penalty case—was found guilty of rape and mur

Ten true tales of people falsely accused detail the flaws in the criminal justice system that landed these people in prison

The evidence that people are wrongly convicted in the American criminal justice system has been growing and is arguably a systemic problem. Westervelt and Humph