https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocen...-death-penalty
"Since 1989, 1,761 people have been exonerated based on new evidence of innocence."
"The graphic also points out some of the most high-profile exonerated prisoners.
Steven Avery, the subject of Netflix's "Making a Murderer," spent 18 years in prison on a wrongful sexual-assault conviction before being exonerated in 2003."
http://www.businessinsider.com/numbe...graphic-2016-5
"Researchers found that 149 people were cleared in 2015 for crimes they didn’t commit — more than any other year in history, according to
a report published Wednesday by the National Registry of Exonerations, a project of the University of Michigan Law School. By comparison, 139 people were exonerated in 2014. The number has risen most years since 2005, when 61 people were cleared of crimes they didn’t commit. "
"The men and women who were cleared last year had, on average, served 14.5 years in prison. Some had been on death row. Others were younger than 18 when they were convicted or had intellectual disabilities. All had been swept into a justice system that’s supposed to be based on the presumption of innocence, but failed."
"About 40 percent of the 2015 exonerations involved official misconduct, a record. About 75 percent of the homicide exonerations involved misconduct."
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b00b033aaf3da9
So, basically if you are charged with a crime, you best have a defense counsel that believes in you, and your case. Your defense counsel best be one heck of an investigator ; and have the integrity to work your case and be ferocious in your defense.
Major Lambda