http://www.rhdefense.com/blog/police-misconduct/hold-up-there-pardner/ The Legal Blog with the Really Low Standard of Review Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:25:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.rhdefense.com/blog/police-misconduct/hold-up-there-pardner/comment-page-1/#comment-407 Mark Bennett Wed, 06 May 2009 01:02:20 +0000 http://www.rhdefense.com/blog/?p=676#comment-407 100,000 is fair estimate of the number of innocents behind bars. There are 2.3 million people in prison. 100,000 would be about 4% of them. Reasonable numbers range from 0.8% to 8% of convicted people being factually innocent. (See the article linked to <a href="http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2009/01/why-the-why.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.) Bruce Spencer of Northwestern University <a href="http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2007/07/statistical-support-for-sixth-amendment.html" rel="nofollow">estimates that 10% of convictions are wrongful</a>. 100,000 is fair estimate of the number of innocents behind bars. There are 2.3 million people in prison. 100,000 would be about 4% of them. Reasonable numbers range from 0.8% to 8% of convicted people being factually innocent. (See the article linked to here.) Bruce Spencer of Northwestern University estimates that 10% of convictions are wrongful.

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