Re:After 20 Years as a Prosecutor in Illinois, I Quit
by iudqnolq on Friday May 12, 2023 @07:25PM
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My impression is that it's higher than those numbers too.
What I meant to say is that death penalty eligible defendants get better representation that pretty much everyone else. So their wrongful conviction rate should be lower than average.
The innocence thing isn't just death row. There are groups who have helped people who are not on death row, mostly using DNA. The majority of the people they help are not on death row. Sure, it could be higher. The point was that there is already what I would consider to be a high wrongful conviction rate. In my own experience, I think the wrongful conviction rate for non-custody offenses is multiple times higher.