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A wrongful conviction is an injustice or miscarriage of justice when an innocent person spends years behind a bar or on death row. This injustice is occurring every day in the Indian courts. Many of the times innocent is forced to confess for a crime which they have not committed in order to achieve swift justice in the eye of the public.
There were procedural errors that violated the convicted person’s rights. According to Duhaime’s law dictionary, “a wrongful conviction is a conviction of a person accused of a crime which, in the result of the subsequent investigation, proves erroneous.”.
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Feb 18, 2021 · Ron Keine, center, 73, was one of four men wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping, rape, and murder of a University of New Mexico student in 1974.
- Phillip Morris
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EJI challenges wrongful convictions and exposes the unjust incarceration of innocent people that undermines the reliability of our system. Learn about the causes, cases, and work of EJI in preventing and correcting false convictions based on official indifference, misconduct, and junk science.
Learn about the causes, consequences, and prevention of wrongful convictions in the U.S. criminal justice system. Explore the literature, the issues, and the unheard voices of the wrongfully convicted through NIJ's articles, events, and publications.
Jun 27, 2024 · The Innocence Project is a legal clinic that helps free innocent people from prison using DNA and other evidence. See the numbers and stories of the 250 exonerations achieved by the project, and the systemic issues they expose and challenge.
