The criminal justice system is supposed to be set up where a person who was convicted for a crime was found guilty by a preponderance of evidence brought against that individual not just people being sent to prison for the rest of their lives or sentence to death because there was not enough evidence brought against the offender, however, was still found guilty. But, due to the high rise of DNA cases being exonerated across the United States, there have been some disturbing fact reveals as to why individuals are being wrongfully accused for crimes they did not commit. According to data research from the Innocence Project, the criminal justice is no longer working the way that it should and there is a desperate need for it to be fix and stop
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The highest percentage of wrongful convictions would come from eyewitnesses misidentifications, when a crime occurs and a witness is brought in to make a statement and identify an offender, there are several factors that can go wrong. First and foremost at the initial time the crime took place the witness may have been shaken up to actually see who the person was, or it could have been in the dark or bad lighten. Unvalidated or Improper forensics could be another reason, this is when forensic evidence comparisons may not be sufficiently evaluated, analysist results are fabricated, evidence is not accurate, or properly conducted. All these failed forensic techniques could cause for a wrongful conviction. Next we can take a look at false confessions or admissions, if a witness was coerced by law officials to make a statement under duress, this could be another factor and finally, when individuals are wrongfully convicted it due to bad informants or snitches who want to pin a crime on an individual, or could have been offered something in exchange to say that person was the one who committed the crime (Innocence Project, n.d.). Unfortunately, these are just a few factors that can cause wrongful convictions, however, there are others, it just that each case is different when trying to put together all the evidence to prove a person
The highest percentage of wrongful convictions would come from eyewitnesses misidentifications, when a crime occurs and a witness is brought in to make a statement and identify an offender, there are several factors that can go wrong. First and foremost at the initial time the crime took place the witness may have been shaken up to actually see who the person was, or it could have been in the dark or bad lighten. Unvalidated or Improper forensics could be another reason, this is when forensic evidence comparisons may not be sufficiently evaluated, analysist results are fabricated, evidence is not accurate, or properly conducted. All these failed forensic techniques could cause for a wrongful conviction. Next we can take a look at false confessions or admissions, if a witness was coerced by law officials to make a statement under duress, this could be another factor and finally, when individuals are wrongfully convicted it due to bad informants or snitches who want to pin a crime on an individual, or could have been offered something in exchange to say that person was the one who committed the crime (Innocence Project, n.d.). Unfortunately, these are just a few factors that can cause wrongful convictions, however, there are others, it just that each case is different when trying to put together all the evidence to prove a person