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Examining Human Error in Wrongful Convictions

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That's the title of an article in the New York Times by Manny Fernandez.  LINKA new examination of wrongful convictions in New York City and around the state found that a number of them stemmed not from DNA evidence being used to prove someone?s innocence, but from a far older phenomenon: human error. The report, released on Friday by the New York State Bar Association, studied the cases of 53 men and women whose convictions were overturned, often after spending years, sometimes decades, in prison for murders, rapes and other crimes they did not commit.It determined that the root causes of the convictions included errors by a prosecutor, judge or member of law enforcement, as well as the misidentification of the accused by victims or witnesses...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).