...During the past 25 years, almost 60 percent of the wrongful - TopicsExpress



          

...During the past 25 years, almost 60 percent of the wrongful convictions for homicide in the US are associated with official misconduct, according to data from the report. Moreover, 17 percent of those exonerated originally pleaded guilty. In most cases, the defendant had accepted a plea bargain for a reduced sentence. In other incidents, the exonerated convict had been a victim of coercive interrogation techniques.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 18:50:19 +0000

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