Sentences with phrase «percent wrongful convictions»

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Some 70 percent of wrongful convictions in the United States are related to false eyewitness accounts.

Between 1989 and 2016, more than 70 percent of the 337 wrongful convictions identified in the U.S. had been influenced by misidentification from eyewitnesses, according to the Innocence Project.

A 2005 study from the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University found that about 46 percent of death row exonerees were victims of false informant testimony.