Digital Evidence Is Behind Only a Tiny Fraction of Wrongful Convictions
<p>I have a <a href="https://medium.com/an-injustice/why-do-good-justice-professionals-do-bad-or-at-least-questionable-things-5f055a44fce7" rel="noopener">new article</a> live at An Injustice!, about the human factors behind the kinds of mistakes in forensic science that can lead to wrongful convictions.</p>
<p>The article came about after I learned of a <a href="https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/impact-false-or-misleading-forensic-evidence-wrongful-convictions#1-0" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">research report</a>, published earlier in 2023, that explored this topic in much greater detail. The long and the short of it: since 1989, 732 cases and 1,391 forensic examinations resulted in exonerations for the defendants involved.</p>
<p>This report, and my article, focused on forensic evidence in general, but I want to highlight one finding in particular: <strong>just 16 cases — <em>two percent</em> of those 732 — involved digital evidence</strong>.</p>
<p><a href="https://medium.com/forensic-horizons/digital-evidence-is-behind-only-a-tiny-fraction-of-wrongful-convictions-a0121d3ee829"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>