All Articles tagged false conviction
Justice Commentaries
September 27, 2020 EDT This article offers ways of reducing the rate of false convictions based on eyewitness misidentifications.
Justice Commentaries
March 04, 2011 EDT This article focuses on the connection between mistaken identification and false convictions.
Justice Commentaries
March 04, 2011 EDT This essay argues that innocence does indeed mean factual innocence and that the best we can do is rely on the legal standards that define guilt and presume innocence.
Justice Commentaries
March 04, 2011 EDT This article considers the nature of miscarriages of justice, the role of each major category of criminal justice official, and the social costs associated with each major type of miscarriage.