{"id":3029,"date":"2014-10-26T18:25:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T22:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2023-08-10T03:52:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T07:52:39","slug":"8-so-many-wrongful-convictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=3029","title":{"rendered":"8. So Many Wrongful Convictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3959\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pt05pg08-1.png\" alt=\"77% of those proven to have been wrongly convicted were convicted because of a bad eyewitness identification. On average, witness I.D. is no better than a coin toss. But jurors believe it as if it was irrefutable. Apart from an outright confession, nothing is more persuasive.\" width=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pt05pg08-1.png 2800w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pt05pg08-1-247x300.png 247w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pt05pg08-1-768x933.png 768w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/pt05pg08-1-843x1024.png 843w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2800px) 100vw, 2800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There are other factors, of course, that have gone into false convictions. And there is a little bit of overlap between the false confessions and bad IDs and the other factors &#8212; it seems to be just\u00a0coincidence that these two factors add up to 100%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are other factors, of course, that have gone into false convictions. And there is a little bit of overlap between the false confessions and bad IDs and the other factors &#8212; it seems to be just\u00a0coincidence that these two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=3029\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,44,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-procedure","category-eyewitness-identification","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}