Anyone can nitpick a point but actually read various sources and open your mind a bit....
These a quick seaches...something easily done and you can find a lot of different view points...as the saying goes for ever expert side A finds, side B can find two, and vice versa. ....
Try another.... just incase you don't want to read all of it...it has a interesting point it makes...
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It hits you in the gut. You first think about this particular person, this man who lost his family, who spent decades in some awful cell believing he was going to be electrocuted. And then you think that other frightening thought, the bugaboo lurking behind all exoneration stories: How many other Glenn Fords are still behind bars? How many will die there? Just how often does our venerated justice system fail?
Rarely, at least according to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. In a 2006 opinion he*cited an approximate error rate*of*0.027 percent, based on back-of-the-envelope*calculations*by an Oregon district attorney in a fiery op-ed for the*New York Times. The op-ed was in response to a report by*Samuel Gross, a law professor at the University of Michigan, cataloguing 340 exonerations between 1989 and 2003. “Let’s give the professor the benefit of the doubt,” the op-ed read. “Let’s assume that he understated the number of innocents by roughly a factor of 10, that instead of 340 there were 4,000 people in prison who weren’t involved in the crime in any way. During that same 15 years, there were more than 15 million felony convictions across the country. That would make the error rate .027 percent — or, to put it another way, a success rate of 99.973 percent.”
But*that*claim, Gross writes in today’s issue of the*Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesHere’s the problem with its logic. The known exonerations were almost all murder and rape cases, which get much more post-conviction attention, whereas the total number of felonies also includes burglary, car theft, tax fraud, and drug possession. Some 95 percent of felony convictions are the result of plea bargains, with no formal evidence ever presented, and most never bother with an appeal...
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http://phenomena.nationalgeographic...re-wrongly-convicted-researchers-do-the-math/
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As for others....again I know several people who were innocent and took a plea deal because the cost of losing the trial was too great... and neither side had evidence to prove anything...