Canada Has a Guilty Plea Wrongful Conviction Problem

Post-Conviction DNA Testing and Wrongful Conviction

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Eyewitness Identifications and State Courts as Guardians against Wrongful Conviction

Despite a growing awareness that mistaken eyewitness identifications contribute significantly to wrongful convictions, most courts continue to apply federal Due Process criteria for admissibility of eyewitness identification that has proved useless in protecting against the use of highly unreliable evidence. In response, this article reviews the path-breaking decisions of several state supreme ...

Probability, Justice, and the Risk of Wrongful Conviction

I am a professor of statistics, and most of my work is fairly technical and mathematical. But one day I wrote a book for the general public, which did unexpected well, especially in Canada. I was then interviewed by the media about such diverse topics as lottery probabilities, public opinion polls, violent crime rates, sports statistics, and more, and was even involved in probing a major lotter...

Advancing Wrongful Conviction Scholarship: Toward New Conceptual Frameworks

As wrongful conviction scholarship grows, some scholars have suggested that existing research on miscarriages of justice lacks theoretical grounding and methodological sophistication, arguing that the use of social science theory may help to better understand wrongful convictions. In this article, we suggest that it may be useful to draw upon conceptual frameworks found in traditional criminal ...

“It Never, Ever Ends”: The Psychological Impact of Wrongful Conviction