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PBS Frontline covering the remarkable Norfolk Four case this week

By Douglas A. Berman

PBS Frontline has been giving lots of attention to criminal justice systems this fall.  A few weeks ago, the show spotlighted the Todd Willingham case in "Death By Fire." And this week Frontline will broadcast a new documentary "The Confessions," which examines the case of the "Norfolk Four" involving a quartet of Navy men who were wrongfully convicted after being coerced into giving false confessions.  Here is a portion of this press release from Frontline: Eight men charged.  Five confessions.  But only one DNA match.  Why would four innocent men confess to a brutal crime they didn't commit? In The Confessions, airing Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010, from 9 to 10:30 P.M. ET on PBS (check local listings), FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel (Innocence Lost, An Ordinary Crime) investigates the conviction of four men ?current and former sailors in the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 07, 2010 (boomark / email).