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Wrongful-conviction anecdotes add up to trend

By Mark Obbie

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Kevin Johnson put a fresh twist on coverage of wrongful convictions in this enterprising story yesterday in USA Today. Citing Innocence Project stats on inmates exonerated by DNA evidence -- showing that 90 percent were convicted of sex crimes -- Johnson explores how the sex-crime stigma follows these men long afterward. Johnson doesn't document with objective proof what he calls a "silent struggle for a rising number of exonerees." But he makes a convincing anecdotal case, with several examples and comments by experts. (Via Criminal Justice Journalists)

Full post as published by Lawbeat on January 29, 2009 (boomark / email).

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