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Books

Aug. 18, 2012

Eye-opener for skeptics who believe the criminal justice system doesn't make mistakes

Book review: "Full Circle: A True Story of Murder, Lies and Vindication" By Maurice Possley


By Maurice Possley


Earlier this year, the National Registry of Exonerations issued its inaugural report on false convictions in the U.S., focusing on 873 exonerations documented since the first DNA exoneration in 1989.


The Registry (exonerationregistry.org), a joint venture of the University of Michigan Law School and Northwestern University's Center on Wrongful Convictions, now has nearly 950 individual cases. As the report, co-authored by the Univ...

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