CRIM 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Clarence Brandley, Innocence Project, Wrongfully Accused
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Objectives: list the criteria necessary for demonstrating that an individual is exonerated (i. e. , was wrongfully convicted). Identify the demographic characteristics of known exonerees in the united states: describe the crimes, punishments, and other legal outcomes of the wrongfully accused in the united. Demonstrating exoneration: the individual must be declared ________________________ by a government or agency with the authority to make that declaration. Or: the individual must be _______________________________ of the criminal conviction by a government official or body with the authority to take that action. An exoneree is a person who was convicted of a crime and later _____________________________, or. ___________________________ because the evidence of innocence that was not ______________________ required _____________________ of the case. Women comprise 17% of all felony convictions and 8% of all exonerations. The average age of exonerees is 27, while 10% are younger than 18.
