Convicting the Innocent

Brandon Garrett 2011

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
wrongful conviction forensics justice system DNA

Our Take

Garrett studied the first 250 DNA exonerations in America and found the same errors repeated: false confessions, bad forensics, lying informants, eyewitness mistakes. The patterns are systemic — not individual failures but institutional design flaws that continue to convict innocent people.

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