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Podcast: Turning A Moment Into A Movement
Episode: Wrongful Convictions.... Pain to Purpose!
Description: Being wrongfully accused and convicted of a crime can lead to serious negative consequences to those wrongfully accused and their families.
A recent study estimated that wrongful convictions occur in 6% of criminal convictions leading to imprisonment. Other research estimates that up to 15.4% of all convictions are wrongful. It been demonstrated that racial and class bias are involved in wrongfully accusing people of crime and that those biases can influence decisions of guilt.
African Americans are burdened by a presumption of guilt that most defense lawyers are not prepared to overcome. As a result, African Americans ma...