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Capital Defense Lawyers: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Sean O'Brien
Capital Defense Lawyers: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Sean O'Brien
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Presumed Guilty: Innocence And The Death Penalty, Sean O'Brien
Presumed Guilty: Innocence And The Death Penalty, Sean O'Brien
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DNA has really changed the way that defense lawyers and prosecutors think about wrongful convictions and about the criminal justice process. But it has not changed it enough.
There are two distinct sets of prisoners who have been declared innocent and released from prison. One consists of DNA exonerees that was developed through the efforts of the innocence projects. The other consists of people who have been on death row who have been exonerated. Only relatively few of the death row exonerations were accomplished with DNA technology. This article examines both lists and discusses a few lessons that we are …