Tag Archives: conviction integrity units

Forensics: ‘The criminal justice system does not always get it right,’ chief justice says. DAs says things are just peachy keen.

Posted on April 18, 2021 by csidds

A team of legal experts is studying ways Ohio’s criminal justice system could be reformed so that wrongful convictions are caught and corrected earlier. — Read on http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/the-criminal-justice-system-does-not-always-get-it-right-chief-justice-says/GCRWVLEFQBAH3OALC3LKSBOWNY/

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The impending reversal of the “CSI effect: 24000 forensically compromised convictions gets ignored

Posted on October 1, 2016 by csidds

41,000 conviction cases. 24,000 are comprised. In ONE state. Significant web-buzz is counter balancing the “Law and Order” industry’s (police, prosecutors, police crime labs, and various Crim Justice talking heads)  howling that their self-assessed forensic integrity is just fine. Well, … Continue reading →

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Taking a Look at what a DA’s ‘Conviction Integrity Unit’ can do right

Posted on March 25, 2015 by csidds

“Late last month, the National Registry of Exonerations reported that the United States had 125 exonerations in 2014, a record high. One of the report’s findings was that 67 of those exonerations – or 54 percent – “were obtained at … Continue reading →

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