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UK courts also sent a woman to prison for infanticide, basically off of the testimony of a single doctor who didn't know how statistics work: https://en.wikipe

• Anthony-G 6y ago
  Wow! That was painful and heart-breaking to read. The poor woman suffered the loss of her two sons, had to go through a Kafka-esque ordeal of trying to prove her innocence, only to spend three years in prison, all the time being reviled by the press, prison officers and prisoners for being a child-killer. Her second appeal seems to only have been successful because the family discovered that the prosecution had actually withheld exculpatory evidence showing that the second death was actually due to a bacterial infection (the first appeal acknowledged the statistical evidence was flawed but still upheld the conviction). She effectively received a death sentence as she died four years later from psychological issues that were a direct result of her ordeal. If such a tragic miscarriage of justice could happen to a reasonably well-off, professional working woman (solicitor), it could happen to anyone!