Convicting the Innocent¶
Garrett. (2012). Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong. Harvard University Press.
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Domain-specific¶
- Misinformation Effect
- Analyses of the DNA-based exonerations catalogued by the Innocence Project found mistaken eyewitness identification to be a contributing factor in roughly 70% of those wrongful convictions
This sourceA study of the first 250 DNA exonerations reporting that eyewitnesses misidentified 76% of the exonerees (190 of 250 cases), and recounting the founding of the Innocence Project.
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“con- victions is now well known. Eyewitnesses misidentified 76% of the exon- erees (190 of 250 cases).”
- Analyses of the DNA-based exonerations catalogued by the Innocence Project found mistaken eyewitness identification to be a contributing factor in roughly 70% of those wrongful convictions
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