What percentage of people in jail are innocent of their convicted crimes?
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« Reply #25 on: March 09, 2009, 03:54:51 PM »


you guess incorrectly.
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« Reply #26 on: March 09, 2009, 04:26:26 PM »


It seems Cobourn believes being a black and/or a poor to be a crime.  (Coburn is an astute).
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« Reply #27 on: March 09, 2009, 11:04:26 PM »

So... I present a rather controversial piece of information, with reliable sources backing it up, and still everyone says the rate is extremely low?
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« Reply #28 on: March 09, 2009, 11:34:53 PM »

Yes.  Your cites don't say anything about what the overall rate of innocence would be.  Stats on over turned cases don't have any solid correlation with cases that were not.
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« Reply #29 on: March 10, 2009, 01:07:30 PM »

Yes.  Your cites don't say anything about what the overall rate of innocence would be.  Stats on over turned cases don't have any solid correlation with cases that were not.

That's what my second link is for, which clearly shows that the way police interrogate eyewitnesses now predisposes people all over to making terrible mistakes.
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« Reply #30 on: March 10, 2009, 11:37:27 PM »

Yes.  Your cites don't say anything about what the overall rate of innocence would be.  Stats on over turned cases don't have any solid correlation with cases that were not.

That's what my second link is for, which clearly shows that the way police interrogate eyewitnesses now predisposes people all over to making terrible mistakes.
Clearly?  Assuming this is the site, nothing is clear there.
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« Reply #31 on: March 11, 2009, 12:27:58 AM »

Yes.  Your cites don't say anything about what the overall rate of innocence would be.  Stats on over turned cases don't have any solid correlation with cases that were not.

That's what my second link is for, which clearly shows that the way police interrogate eyewitnesses now predisposes people all over to making terrible mistakes.
Clearly?  Assuming this is the site, nothing is clear there.

What's unclear?
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« Reply #32 on: March 11, 2009, 12:51:39 AM »

It's a page full of links to .pdf files.  You expect me to dig through that looking for your point?
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« Reply #33 on: March 11, 2009, 01:03:20 AM »

It's a page full of links to .pdf files.  You expect me to dig through that looking for your point?

My point is that there is quite a bit of research on the subject; I was expecting you to go to the trouble of reading some of it because I doubted you'd take it straight from me.

Perhaps a 60 Minutes feature?
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« Reply #34 on: March 11, 2009, 01:16:21 AM »

I don't have hours to dig into incarceration rates and what methods police use to question witnesses.  If you're point is so clear, why can't you link to one or two .pdfs and quote the appropriate part somewhere in your post.

I'm at work, I can't open YouTube links.
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