If there are about , new convictions across the country every year, that would mean innocent people are being locked up every year; an average of more than two people every day. Looking at it another way, if innocent people are convicted, but only people were exonerated in , that means more people are still wrongfully behind bars.
Unfortunately, Kentucky is still one of a minority of states within the country that does not have a statute in place to provide restitution for people who have been wrongfully imprisoned for a crime. At Baldani Law Group, we have the knowledge and experience that brings results.
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Please avoid sharing any personal information in the comments below and join us in making this a hate-speech free and safe space for everyone. Join our mailing list. Little evidence pointed to Mr. He did not fit the description provided to the police. And he Colbey was wrongly convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole when she gave birth to a stillborn baby. EJI successfully challenged her conviction.
Anthony Ray Hinton spent 30 years on death row for a crime he did not commit because of racial bias, inadequate counsel, and prosecutorial indifference to innocence. Beniah Dandridge was released after EJI presented fingerprint evidence showing he did not commit the murder for which he spent 20 years in prison. Wrongful Convictions Thousands of people have been wrongly convicted across the country in a system defined by official indifference to innocence and error.
Official Indifference. Our Work. Causes Exonerations tell us a lot about what causes wrongful convictions. Official Indifference A major factor in wrongful convictions is official indifference to innocence and error. Related Resources. The rate of wrongful convictions in the United States is estimated to be somewhere between 2 percent and 10 percent.
That may sound low, but when applied to an estimated prison population of 2. Can there really be 46, to , innocent people locked away? Those of us who are involved in exoneration work firmly believe so. Millions of defendants are processed through our courts each year. It's nearly impossible to determine how many of them are actually innocent once they've been convicted.
There are few resources for examining the cases and backgrounds of those claiming to be wrongfully convicted. Once an innocent person is convicted, it is next to impossible to get the individual out of prison. Over the past 25 years, the Innocence Project, where I serve on the board of directors, has secured through DNA testing the release of innocent men and women, 20 of whom had been sent to death row.
All told, there have been more than 2, exonerations, including from death row, in the U. But we've only scratched the surface. Wrongful convictions happen for several reasons. In no particular order, these causes are:. Bad police work. Most cops are honest, hard-working professionals. But some have been known to hide, alter or fabricate evidence; lie on the stand; cut deals in return for bogus testimony; intimidate and threaten witnesses; coerce confessions; or manipulate eyewitness identifications.
Prosecutorial misconduct.
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