Exonerations in America have risen, and their pattern is revealing
“Professional exonerators” were responsible for 60% of overturned convictions last year
IN THE AUTUMN of 2006, two teenage girls were sexually assaulted in Detroit. Within weeks, the police had their man. Terance Calhoun, a local 19-year-old, was spotted in a liquor store nearby and appeared to match the composite sketch the police had produced. He pleaded no-contest in February 2007 and was dispatched to prison.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Delayed justice”
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