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How Many People Are Wrongly Convicted? Researchers Do the Math.
Rarely, at least according to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. In a 2006 opinion he cited an approximate error rate of 0.027 percent, based on back-of-the-envelope calculations by an Oregon district attorney in a fiery op-ed for the New York Times. The op-ed was in response to a report by Samuel Gross, a law professor at the University of Michigan, cataloguing 340 exonerations between 1989 and 2003.
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Scalia.... (IMO) not a very good source for accurate information, good decision making or rational thinking. Where does this guy work, anyway?
Hmm, anyone else thing this has to be wrong?