Report: Racial Disparity in Wrong Convictions

Jason Perry
By Jason Perry
October 4, 2022NTD Evening News
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On Sept. 23, the National Registry of Exonerations released a report that details racial patterns of wrongful convictions in the United States. The report found that black people were seven times more likely to be wrongly convicted than white people. The legal director for Innocence Project New Orleans gives his analysis.

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