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Harper’s Index: Wrongful conviction by the numbers
Posted: June 22, 2007 4:10 pm
The July issue of Harper’s magazine includes several important statistics on wrongful conviction, eyewitness misidentification and false confessions:
- Number of wrongful convictions since 1989 (as of press date): 201
- Percentage who had been mistakenly identified by eyewitnesses: 77
- Chances that a judge in a 2003 study deemed a taped confession to be voluntary if only the suspect appeared on camera: 4 in 5
- Chances if both the suspect and the interrogator were filmed: 2 in 3
Tags: False Confessions, Eyewitness Misidentification