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In response to "I have a question and it's not trying to be all fighty...it's that I don't know. Are there a lot of innocent people being convicted every year?" by Jim

not a full picture by any means, but there have been 244 convictions overturned through DNA evidence in the last 20 years. -- (link)

Posted by znufrii Oct 20 '09, 08:29

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http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/351.php (www.innocenceproject.org)

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17 of which were on death row. -- nm - TFox Oct 20, 08:31 7
- maybe not if it was a one week stay there. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 20, 08:32 4
  - uh, yeah. Then these innocent people would be dead. -- nm - Reagen Oct 20, 08:35 3
    - they probably would have stopped looking at evidence. - groiny Oct 20, 08:37 2
      - so we need the DP in order to get people to look harder at whether we've convicted the right people, but they only get a week to do it? - Reagen Oct 20, 08:40 1
        
        *laughing* - groiny Oct 20, 08:43
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  - nope, i'm not trying to imply anything of the sort. i know that the reason for the ratio is how few death row convictions there are. -- nm - TFox Oct 20, 08:32
Of course, in many cases there won't be any DNA evidence. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 20, 08:30 5
- this is why I leave traces of my seed everywhere. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 20, 08:30
- I believe in *most* cases there is no DNA evidence. which means there are probably a great many innocent people in prison. -- nm - loosilu Oct 20, 08:30 3
  - "� 22 percent of cases closed by the Innocence Project since 2004 were closed because of lost or missing evidence." -- nm - znufrii Oct 20, 08:31 1
    - so 78% were overturned for DNA evidence, which means DNA evidence is the best basis for overturning. -- nm - loosilu Oct 20, 08:32
  - No doubt. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 20, 08:31
so 12 a year...... nm -- nm - groiny Oct 20, 08:29 3
- of those are just the ones that get overturned, not a full measure of everyone wrongly convicted. -- nm - znufrii Oct 20, 08:31
- the majorit of them are in the last 10 years. -- nm - loosilu Oct 20, 08:30
- oh, that's not so bad then... -- nm - Don Homer Oct 20, 08:29

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