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Yeah. Oddly enough, the aforementioned “97%” stat brought me to an Innocence Project page[1] which leads with: > In nearly 11% of the nation’s 349 DNA exonerat
by ryanwhitney 6y ago
Yeah. Oddly enough, the aforementioned “97%” stat brought me to an Innocence Project page[1] which leads with:
> In nearly 11% of the nation’s 349 DNA exoneration cases, innocent people entered guilty pleas.
Obviously a small and biased sample group, but guilty plea ≠ guilty.
[1] https://innocenceproject.org/guilty-plea-campaign-announcement/ https://innocenceproject.org/guilty-plea-campaign-announceme... (2017)