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This 5 page paper outlines the problems inherent in proving innocence after conviction. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Criminal justice is faced with many challenges when it comes to insuring that those accused of crimes are properly prosecuted. The system
also faces challenges in insuring those prosecutions are just. The tools with which that can be done are constantly evolving. DNA is one of the more promising of
those tools. Unfortunately, there are far too many instances around the nation where people are wrongfully convicted despite the fact that DNA evidence exists that could have proved their
innocence. Currently there are some 3,000 inmates sitting on death row in United States prisons (Harrington 325). For many of those prisoners
DNA evidence has been collected as a part of routine case investigations that could definitively prove their guilt or their innocence. Indeed, to date, 17 individuals around the nation
who had been convicted of capital murder have been exonerated post-conviction on the basis of DNA evidence (Harrington 325). There are even more testaments to the importance of post
conviction testing when we consider all crimes overall. The Mid Atlantic Innocence Project identifies 251 post conviction exonerations based on DNA testing. Unfortunately, DNA evidence is not always considered
when these cases are being tried! That translates not only into a tremendous wasted of resources but an inexcusable moral wrong. Furthermore, it can translate into a significant
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