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Seventeen people who were exonerated through DNA testing have spent a combined 187 years on death row for crimes they didn’t commit. Some came within days of their scheduled execution. Read more about their cases and the Innocence Project’s position on capital punishment.
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www.innocenceproject.org/
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146 African Americans; 71 Caucasians; 21 Latinos; 2 Asian American; 5 whose race is unknown; • The true suspects and/or perpetrators have been identified in 105 of the DNA exoneration cases.
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www.innocenceproject.org/Content/351.php
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views, of postconviction DNA exoneration cases, and it does not under- .... DNA exoneration cases become better understood, this triumph of political ...
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www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/dnaevid.pdf
www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/dnaevid.pdf
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There are, however, historically unique aspects to the DNA exoneration cases. Most significantly, both the postconviction cases described in this report and ...
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www.ncjrs.gov/txtfiles/dnaevid.txt
www.ncjrs.gov/txtfiles/dnaevid.txt
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Alaska is the only state in the nation where there have been no known cases of prisoners being granted DNA testing through a court order or the consent of a prosecutor. In 82% of the exoneration cases for which records are available, prosecutors consented to DNA testing.
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dallaspeacecenter.org/node/4006
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That is more DNA exonerations than in all of California, and more than in Florida, too. In fact, Dallas County alone has more such cases than all but three states — a situation one Texas lawmaker calls an "international embarrassment." ... Since the nation's first DNA exoneration in 1989, 26 defendants have been cleared...
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www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16710829/
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The Second Look Program at Brooklyn Law School takes only non-DNA cases. All 11 people exonerated through the Innocence Project Northwest in Seattle were in cases that involved no genetic material.
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www.psychology.iastate.edu/faculty/gwells/DNAcasesAPstu...
www.psychology.iastate.edu/faculty/gwells/DNAcasesAPstudy.htm
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DNA exoneration cases have exposed eyewitness error as the predominant factor in false convictions. ... In the following years, researchers have produced a solid body of laboratory evidence that supports the use of double-blind sequential lineups as a means to secure better quality eyewitness identifications.2 While...
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web.augsburg.edu/~steblay/PERF2007.pdf
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Working with the victims in DNA-exoneration cases is a tricky and not altogether rewarding experience. Our office’s first contact with them will, in most cases, turn their world completely upside-down.
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