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(October 2) World Innocence Day: "One wrongful conviction is too many,..."
Donny Ferguson 🗽 Retweeted:One wrongful conviction is too many, and when you dig deep and you find out all of the reasons why some of these people were wrongfully convicted, it's just sickening," - @spurs coach Gregg Popovich. #Spurs #deathpenalty
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Popovich praises Innocence Project on Wrongful Conviction Day
By Tom Orsborn Published 5:25 pm CDT, Tuesday, October 2, 2018
SAN ANTONIO – With Tuesday marking the fifth annual Wrongful Conviction Day, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich paused to praise the work of the Innocence Project and the Innocence Network.
"One (wrongful conviction) is too many, and when you dig deep and you find out all of the reasons why some of these people were wrongfully convicted, it's just sickening," Popovich said after practice. "The injustices are so gross, it affects so many people. Not just the individual, but all the families that are involved with that."
"One (wrongful conviction) is too many, and when you dig deep and you find out all of the reasons why some of these people were wrongfully convicted, it's just sickening," Popovich said after practice. "The injustices are so gross, it affects so many people. Not just the individual, but all the families that are involved with that."
Founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck at Cardozo School of Law, the Innocence Project exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and work to reform the criminal justice system to prevent further injustice.
The Innocence Network is an affiliation of organizations dedicated to providing pro bono legal and investigative services to those seeking to prove their innocence of crimes for which they have been convicted and working to redress the causes of wrongful convictions
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By Tom Orsborn Published 5:25 pm CDT, Tuesday, October 2, 2018
SAN ANTONIO – With Tuesday marking the fifth annual Wrongful Conviction Day, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich paused to praise the work of the Innocence Project and the Innocence Network.
"One (wrongful conviction) is too many, and when you dig deep and you find out all of the reasons why some of these people were wrongfully convicted, it's just sickening," Popovich said after practice. "The injustices are so gross, it affects so many people. Not just the individual, but all the families that are involved with that."
"One (wrongful conviction) is too many, and when you dig deep and you find out all of the reasons why some of these people were wrongfully convicted, it's just sickening," Popovich said after practice. "The injustices are so gross, it affects so many people. Not just the individual, but all the families that are involved with that."
Founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck at Cardozo School of Law, the Innocence Project exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and work to reform the criminal justice system to prevent further injustice.
The Innocence Network is an affiliation of organizations dedicated to providing pro bono legal and investigative services to those seeking to prove their innocence of crimes for which they have been convicted and working to redress the causes of wrongful convictions
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