Through the looking glass

The advent of DNA opened unprecedented opportunities for evaluating the quality of the US criminal justice system, and the results have been anything but reassuring. False eyewitness identification is the chief source of wrongful convictions, but prosecutorial corruption also plays a major role.

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Published in:The Humanist (Buffalo, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2003-05, Vol.63 (3), p.4
Main Author: Griffin, C W
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Attorneys
Capital punishment
Criminal justice
Deoxyribonucleic acid
DNA
Evidence
Legal ethics
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Summary:The advent of DNA opened unprecedented opportunities for evaluating the quality of the US criminal justice system, and the results have been anything but reassuring. False eyewitness identification is the chief source of wrongful convictions, but prosecutorial corruption also plays a major role.
ISSN:0018-7399
2163-3576