After John Grisham dug into the question of wrongful convictions he offered this bleak assessment of our justice system:
The journey also exposed me to the world of wrongful convictions. Something that I, even as a former lawyer, had never spent much time thinking about. This is not a problem peculiar to Oklahoma, far from it. Wrongful convictions occur every month in every state in this country, and the reasons are all varied and all the same-- bad police work, junk science, faulty eyewitness identifications, bad defense lawyers, lazy prosecutors, arrogant prosecutors.Nearly every day brings fresh examples to bolster Grisham's argument.
Radley Balko has an incredible article about a fraudulent "expert" and the prosecutors who still defend him.
A Forensics Charlatan Gets Caught in the Act
Dr. William Anderson has two posts that look at the mindset of prosecutors who defend the indefensible:
Prosecutors and Wrongful Convictions: They Don't Care, Anymore
More Disturbing News about U.S. Prosecutors
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