Wrongful Convictions

Reasons for Wrongful Convictions

The actual statistics for wrongfully convicted people in the United States is 3-5%. That means that 3-5% of the people in state and federal prisons are innocent. Some of these innocent people have actually been executed.

These are the nine (9) most common reasons people are wrongfully convicted:
1. Improper or mistaken eyewitness identification
2. Lack of adequate defense counsel
3. Improper or false police testimony
4. Loss or destroyed evidence (forensic fraud)
5. Lack of alibi for defendant
6. Fabricated evidence by the prosecution
7. Improper jury instructions
8. Prosecutorial misconduct
9. False confessions

Michael O’Laughlin was wrongfully convicted on reasons 2-8. And for this wrongful conviction he was sentenced to 35-50 years in a Massachusetts maximum security prison.

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Wrongful Conviction Web Sites

Following are some web sites supporting and helpful in understanding the plight of the wrongfully convicted:















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Wrongful Conviction Books

Following are some books supporting and helpful in understanding the plight of the wrongfully convicted:







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Corruption in the Berkshires

Following are sites the National Center for Reason and Justice (NCRJ) is working on regarding people from the Berkshires that have been wrongfully convicted:











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