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False Convictions, Phoebe C. Ellsworth, Samuel R. Gross Jan 2012

False Convictions, Phoebe C. Ellsworth, Samuel R. Gross

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False convictions have received a lot of attention in recent years. Two-hundred and forty-one prisoners have been released after DNA testing has proved their innocence, and hundreds of others have been released without DNA evidence. We now know quite a bit more about false convictions than we did thirty years ago - but there is much more that we do not know, and may never know.