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May 22, 2012

Study: Half of People Falsely Convicted Are Black 
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New research shows half of people falsely convicted of serious crimes in
the United States in recent decades are African American. An archive
assembled by law-school researchers at the University of Michigan and
Northwestern University reveals more than 2,000 people who were falsely
convicted of serious crimes have been exonerated in the past 23 years.
Of the nearly 900 for whom detailed information is available, half are
African American and more than 100 were facing death sentences. Excluded
from the registry are more than 1,100 additional defendants whose
convictions were discarded after it was revealed police officers
fabricated crimes.

 

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