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The Big 200

By swd

The 200th person was exonerated today as the result of the good work of the people at the Innocence Project and the its affiliates. It is just a little scary that so many people could have wrongly been convicted. Even scarier, I think, is the fact that science is only able to exonerate people or confirm convictions in those cases where DNA is at issue. In most robberies, thefts, and drug crimes, DNA is not in play. Yet people can be wrongly convicted for all the same reasons as they are in the high-profile murders and rapes.

For information, see the pamphlet that the Innocence Project has put together to commemorate this milestone.

Full post as published by A Public Defender's Journal on April 23, 2007 (boomark / email).