Citation

Risinger DM. J. Crim. Law Criminol. 2007; 97(3): 761-806.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Northwestern University School of Law)

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Abstract

To a great extent, those who believe that our criminal justice system rarely convicts the factually innocent and those who believe such miscarriages are rife have generally talked past each other for want of any empirically justified factual innocence wrongful conviction rate. This article remedies at least a part of this problem by establishing the first such empirically justified wrongful conviction rate ever for a significant universe of real world serious crimes: capital rape-murders in the 1980s.