Experts say false confessions, discredited scientific evidence, unreliable witnesses, and prosecutorial misconduct are mostly to blame for recent wrongful convictions.
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In 2013, there were 87 known criminal exonerations, the most ever, and the increase isn’t owed to the use of DNA evidence to clear suspects. So reports the ABA Journal.
Experts say false confessions, discredited scientific evidence, unreliable witnesses, and prosecutorial misconduct are mostly to blame for recent wrongful convictions.