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    According to the document, eyewitness misidentification contributed to over 75% of wrongful convictions that have been overturned by DNA evidence since 1989. Over 30% of exonerees were minorities despite making up only around 25% of the US population. The document also notes that at least 13% of exonerees were identified by 3 or more eyewitnesses and suggests that if the justice system has a 1% error rate, over 7,000 people may be imprisoned each year for crimes they did not commit.

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    According to the document, eyewitness misidentification contributed to over 75% of wrongful convictions that have been overturned by DNA evidence since 1989. Over 30% of exonerees were minorities despite making up only around 25% of the US population. The document also notes that at least 13% of exonerees were identified by 3 or more eyewitnesses and suggests that if the justice system has a 1% error rate, over 7,000 people may be imprisoned each year for crimes they did not commit.

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    Wrongful Convictions

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    Justin McLachlan
    According to the document, eyewitness misidentification contributed to over 75% of wrongful convictions that have been overturned by DNA evidence since 1989. Over 30% of exonerees were minorities despite making up only around 25% of the US population. The document also notes that at least 13% of exonerees were identified by 3 or more eyewitnesses and suggests that if the justice system has a 1% error rate, over 7,000 people may be imprisoned each year for crimes they did not commit.

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    WRONGFUL

    CONVICTIONS by JUSTIN McLACHLAN // JUSTINMCLACHLAN.COM

    256
    The number 30% white

    of people
    exonerated 70% minorities

    by DNA
    since 1989

    175 17
    Number of witnesses who identified
    the same innocent defendant

    13% 3+ 17
    The number The number
    25% 2
    of exonerees of exonerees 239
    identified sentenced
    as guilty by to death
    an eye witness 62% 1

    At least 13 percent were identified by 3 or more witnesses

    0 1-5 11-19 20 +

    EXONERATIONS
    BY STATE CT
    NJ
    DE MA
    VT
    NH

    MD RI
    DC

    AK HI

    7,309
    The number of people sent to prison in 2009 for crimes they didn’t commit,
    assuming our justice system is at least 99 percent accurate

    SOURCES: INNOCENCEPROJECT.ORG AND THE BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS

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