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Presumed Guilty

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

One of my personal heroes, Sean O’Brien, has a fantastic piece up over at SSRN on Innocence and the Death Penalty. Mr. O’Brien’s aticle entitled “Presumed Guilty: Innocence and the Death Penalty” is avaiable at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1111582 DNA has really changed the way that defense lawyers and prosecutors think about wrongful convictions and about the criminal justice process. But it has not changed it enough. There are two distinct sets of prisoners who have been declared innocent and released from prison. One consists of DNA exonerees that was developed through the efforts of the innocence projects. The other consists of people who have been on death row who have been exonerated. Only relatively few of the death row exonerations were accomplished with DNA technology...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 28, 2008 (boomark / email).