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New Report Shows More Than Half of Wrongful Convictions Involved Misconduct by Police and Prosecutors

Loaded on Nov. 15, 2020 by Dale Chappell published in Criminal Legal News December, 2020, page 24
Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Police Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct. Location: United States of America.

by Dale Chappell

More than half of the cases where innocent people were wrongfully prosecuted and imprisoned over the last three decades involved misconduct by the police and/or prosecutors. This comes from a new report by the National Registry of Exonerations (“NRE”) released in September 2020, compiling data on every ...

 

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