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Medical Statistical Model Used to Estimate Wrongful Conviction Rate in Death Penalty Cases
Loaded on July 6, 2016
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2016, page 56
Filed under:
Prison Reform,
Statistics/Trends,
Wrongful Conviction,
Wrongful Imprisonment,
Death Penalty,
Death Row.
An interesting collaboration between medical and law professionals, under the leadership of University of Michigan Law School professor Samuel R. Gross, led to the application of medical statistical analysis to exonerations of death-sentenced prisoners, in order to estimate the number of innocent defendants who receive the death penalty. The report, ...
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