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Avoiding wrongful convictions
safety doctrine

Identifying and processing innocence claims


using discipline of social science https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/241389.pdf



The rapid increase in the U.S. incarceration rate since the 1990s, occurring simultaneously with a drop in crime, helped raise the profile of wrongful convictions in the United States. The advent of DNA testing increasingly overturning death row convictions, and then other convictions (with or without DNA testing), further spurred debate on how many are actually innocent. Prosecutors also seek estimates of wrongful conviction rates to get ahead of Innocence Projects, including those leading a Conviction Review Unit, and Criminal Cases Review Commission in parts of the UK. Although scholarly concern about wrongful convictions stretches back more than a century.

And if Innocence Projects legitimately require more resources to process an overwhelming volume of viable innocence claims.

Chart
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Compensation statutes
liability for exoneration compensation "The federal law that compensates the wrongfully convicted is not so stringent and allows the possibility of a person whose self-defense claim was improperly rejected to be exonerated and compensated." States adopting compensation legislation limit coverage to those demonstrating factual innocence, and other constraints excluding some exonerees from compensation eligibility.