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3 results foundAuthor: 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: ExonerationsFalse ImprisonmentsJudicial ErrorsMiscarriage of JusticesWrongful 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: ExonerationsFalse ImprisonmentsJudicial ErrorsMiscarriage of JusticesWrongful Convictions |
Author: Sarel, Roee Title: Do Wrongfully Convicted Defendants Receive Higher Punishments? Summary: The paper explores theoretically and empirically whether wrongfully convicted defendants receive different punishments than correctly convicted defendants. My model suggests that wrongfully convicted defendants may systematically receive either higher or lower punishments if judges engage in 'compromise verdicts', by balancing the punishment and the probability of guilt. Divergence in punishments between the guilty and the innocent further implies that type I (wrongful convictions) and type II (wrongful acquittals) errors impact crime deterrence asymmetrically. I test the predictions of the model through an empirical analysis of sentencing cases in the U.S. federal courts, which indicates that exonerated defendants receive lower punishments at the time of their conviction. Details: Hamburg, Germany: Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg, 2018. 32p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 17, 2019 at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3205036 Year: 2018 Country: United States URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3205036 Shelf Number: 155437 Keywords: Judicial ErrorsSentencing Wrongful Convictions |