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Author: Gross, Samuel R.

Title: Exonerations in the United States, 1989 - 2012

Summary: This report is about 873 exonerations in the United States, from January 1989 through February 2012. The 873 exonerations we analyze in this report are listed and described in the National Registry of Exonerations, which is maintained and updated on a regular basis. They are available at: exonerationregistry.org. These are not the only exonerations we know about. We also discuss a larger set: at least 1,100 convicted defendants who were cleared since 1995 in 12 "group exonerations," that occurred after it was discovered that police officers had deliberately framed dozens or hundreds of innocent defendants, mostly for drug and gun crimes.3 The group exonerations do not appear on the National Registry. We have only sketchy information about most of these cases. For some of the scandals we can only estimate the numbers of exonerated defendants and know few if any of their names. Some of these group exonerations are well known; most are comparatively obscure. We began to notice them by accident, as a by-product of searches for individual cases. We have no doubt that there have been other group exonerations in the past 23 years that we have not spotted.

Details: Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Law School, National Registry of Exonerations, 2012. 108p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 3, 2014 at: http://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/exonerations_us_1989_2012_full_report.pdf

Year: 2012

Country: United States

URL: http://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/exonerations_us_1989_2012_full_report.pdf

Shelf Number: 132221

Keywords:
Exonerations
False Imprisonments
Judicial Errors
Miscarriage of Justices
Wrongful Convictions

Author: University of Michigan Law School

Title: Exonerations in 2015

Summary: ​A new report by the Registry, Exonerations in 2015, describes a record 149 exonerations last year. There were also record numbers of exonerations in homicide cases, exonerations with false confessions, exonerations of convictions based on guilty pleas, exonerations with official misconduct and exonerations with the help of prosecutorial Conviction Integrity Units.

Details: Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Law School, 2016. 30p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed February 5, 2016 at: http://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/Exonerations_in_2015.pdf

Year: 2016

Country: United States

URL: http://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/Exonerations_in_2015.pdf

Shelf Number: 137771

Keywords:
Exonerations
False Imprisonments
Judicial Errors
Miscarriage of Justices
Wrongful Convictions