Seeking Justice For The Innocent

California Leads In Wrongful Convictions

The California Wrongful Convictions Project, launched by the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Berkeley Law) and Hollway Advisory Services, a criminal justice research firm, announced findings in preliminary data that show California has thrown out more than 200 wrongful convictions since 1989, more than any other state. The cost is calculated at $129 million, however, this total only includes the cost to the state and does not include the cost paid by the wrongfully convicted and their families to repeatedly defend themselves against the state. These innocent individuals have collectively spent 1,313 years behind bars for crimes they did not commit. Some of these wrongful convictions were determined to be inadvertent mistakes but horrifyingly others were deliberate misconduct.

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