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pnwmom

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1. The Innocence Project has found that about 1/4 of people proven innocent turned out
Thu Apr 16, 2015, 08:33 PM
Apr 2015

to have given false confessions. Cracking under the pressure of police interrogations is far more common than many people realize.

When the Governor ordered the men released he should have overturned their convictions as well. There is a confessed rapist and murderer who left his DNA at the scene. The government just doesn't want to admit its mistake.

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