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"Consensus on Counting the Innocent: We Can't."

"Consensus on Counting the Innocent: We Can't." Tuesday's installment of The New York Times will contain this new installment of Adam Liptak's "Sidebar" column.

It begins, "A couple of years ago, Justice Antonin Scalia, concurring in a Supreme Court death penalty decision, took stock of the American criminal justice system and pronounced himself satisfied. The rate at which innocent people are convicted of felonies is, he said, less than three-hundredths of 1 percent -- .027 percent, to be exact."

Full post as published by How Appealing on March 24, 2008 (boomark / email).