Actual-Innocence Policy, Non-DNA Innocence Claims
By: Glenn A. Garber and Angharad Vaughan

New York Law Journal
Volume 239 - NO.65
Friday, April 4, 2008

The 212 people exonerated by DNA evidence since 1989 have raised significant awareness about the criminal justice system’s failure to protect the innocent from wrongful conviction and have led to reform in the handling of criminal investigations and prosecutions.

As 149 of these DNA exonerations have come in the last seven years, a body of data has recently developed that can now be relied upon for meaningful analysis of the causes of erroneous convictions. Cases most likely to result in the conviction of the innocent involve faulty eyewitness identification, misleading forensic evidence, false confessions, or unreliable informant testimony.


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