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Podcast: Turning A Moment Into A Movement
Episode: The Wrongful Conviction Story of.... "Andre Lee Nelson"
Description: According to the National Registry of Exonerations, wrongful convictions statistics show that the percentage of wrongful convictions is somewhere between 2% and 10%. Â Keeping in mind that there are over 2.3 million incarcerated people in the U. S., that means there's almost 50,000 to way over 200,000 innocent people behind bars.
Wrongful convictions statistics show false accusations are present in 70% of wrongful convictions. Perjury or false accusations are more common in murder cases.  Withholding exculpatory evidence was present in 75% of wrongful convictions. In 93 of 143 exonerated cases, evidence was withheld at some point in the proceedings by the police or the prosecution. It’s pr...