CRM/LAW C114 Lecture 2: Lecture #2
9 Feb 2017
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Lecture #2: returning an unfair verdict based on evidence presented as a legal justice failure. Wrongful conviction: wrongful conviction of factually innocent individual legal innocence, absence of one or more procedural or legal bases to support the sentence given to a defendant. Exoneration: when a person convicted of a crime is cleared based on new evidence. How to estimate wrongful convictions: count exonerations; divide by convictions scalia. Misses undetected wrongful convictions: ask people huff, rattner, segarin imprecise. Hard for people to judge small #s: count exoneration for small subset of cases. Counting exonerations: three approaches the factually conservative approach. Only rely on indisputable cases of actual innocence . Scientific exoneration true perpetrator is identified and there is no reasonable dispute about his guilt. Designed to be independent of 3rd parties opinions about guilt and innocence. Minimize possibility of misclassifying guilty individuals as innocent.
