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Report Downplays Wrongful Convictions in U.S.
Loaded on March 15, 2003
by Hans Sherrer
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2004, page 21
Filed under:
Reviews,
Searches,
DNA Testing/Samples,
Criminal Prosecution,
Wrongful Conviction,
Death Penalty.
Location:
United States of America.
A report by University of Michigan staffers and law students _ Exonerations in the United States: 1989 through 2003 _ was released to the public on April 23, 2004. The report analyzed data from 328 cases during that 15 year period in which the defendant was officially declared, "not guilty …
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