Imagine that you could be in jail right now, for something you didn't do. People every year are put in jail based on wrong Eye-Witness assumptions and false evidence for crimes that they did not commit.
The story that we listened to in class was a story about 4 teenagers who were wrongly convicted for raping and murdering a woman. Then furthermore, against their will, were forced to sign confession papers admitting to being guilty when they weren't and were put in jail because of it. Then several years later and the advancement of technology DNA evidence suggested that the crime was committed by an completely different person.
My personal reaction to this would be that I think Project Innocence is definitely a step to a stronger justice system, but the thing that we need to fix would be the wrong witness assumptions in the justice system that keeps on allowing people to be wrongly imprisoned and convicted of things that they did not do.
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