Actions by police officers, including witness tampering, violent interrogations and falsifying evidence, account for majority of the misconduct that lead to wrongful convictions, study shows.
WASHINGTON – Actions by police officers, including witness tampering, violent interrogations and falsifying evidence, account for majority of the misconduct that lead to wrongful convictions,released Tuesday by the National Registry of Exonerations that focused on the role police and prosecutors play in false convictions in the country.
The findings by the National Registry of Exonerations, a project that collects data on wrongful convictions in the country, come as protests over racial injustice and police brutality engulfed many cities for several months following the May 25 death of George Floyd. Floyd, who was Black, died after a white Minneapolis police officer placed his knee on Floyd's neck. The officer,Fired for a felony, again for perjury. Meet the new police chief.
"The basic underlying truth is if you're innocent of a crime and you were convicted of it, the chances of it ever coming to light are, first, not great and, second, get worse and worse the less serious a crime it is," Gross said."If you're convicted of a misdemeanor and you're innocent of it ... the chance of anybody caring is very low."
Researchers found that misconduct by police and prosecutors is among the leading causes of disproportionate false conviction of Black defendants. For example, 78% of Black defendants who were wrongly accused of murder were convicted because of some type of misconduct. That number is 64% for white defendants, according to the study. An even wider gap: 87% of Black defendants later found innocent who were sentenced to death were victims of official misconduct vs. 68% for white defendants.
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