the Left & the Law: the Innocence Project

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Air date: 
Mon, 04/28/2014 - 12:00am
Left and the Law: Innocence Project
Jan Haaken and Mike Snediker discuss the Innocence Project which seeks to free those wrongfully convicted of crimes. They discuss the development of DNA technology that made it possible to discover the large numbers of wrongful convictions, and the reasons for those many miscarriages of justice—including tunnel vision or confirmatory bias, police and prosecutorial misconduct, and mistaken eyewitnesses. Juries are still instructed to consider the level of confidence of eyewitnesses, even though there is no relation between confidence and accuracy. 

Related: Guilty Except for Insanity plays April 30 at the Rethinking Psychiatry Film Festival.

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