....and that also is a good thing. Kinda makes the Innocence Project a twofer.
I agree with what the Innocence Project (IP) is trying to do. Nobody should sit in prison for a crime they didn't commit.
I think their 50% success rate is something of a testament to the integrity of our sometimes imperfect system of criminal justice. They don't just pull names out of a hat when they take on cases. They sift through literally thousands and thousands of appeals from prisoners (every last of whom claims to be innocent), research thousands of files and try and find only those cases with the highest odds of being wrongfully convicted. And after all this, that 50% of these people were really guilty and just blowing smoke up the rears of IP lawyers shows that the vast majority of the time, our system works in convicting the right person for the crime.
I agree with what the Innocence Project (IP) is trying to do. Nobody should sit in prison for a crime they didn't commit.
I think their 50% success rate is something of a testament to the integrity of our sometimes imperfect system of criminal justice. They don't just pull names out of a hat when they take on cases. They sift through literally thousands and thousands of appeals from prisoners (every last of whom claims to be innocent), research thousands of files and try and find only those cases with the highest odds of being wrongfully convicted. And after all this, that 50% of these people were really guilty and just blowing smoke up the rears of IP lawyers shows that the vast majority of the time, our system works in convicting the right person for the crime.