When we first learned about conviction integrity units, special programs in district attorneys' offices meant to investigate claims of wrongful conviction, we found their very premise paradoxical. Could the same office that may have wrongfully convicted a person lead an unbiased reinvestigation of their own work?…
When we first learned about conviction integrity units, special programs in district attorneys' offices meant to investigate claims of wrongful conviction, we found their very premise paradoxical.
Could the same office that may have wrongfully convicted a person lead an unbiased reinvestigation of their own work?…
By Willow Higgins and Ryan Kost, Columbia Journalism Investigations.
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When we first learned about conviction integrity units, special programs in district attorneys' offices meant to investigate claims of wrongful conviction, we found their very premise paradoxical. Could the same office that may have wrongfully convicted a person lead an unbiased reinvestigation of their own work?… By Willow Higgins and Ryan Kost, Columbia Journalism Investigations.
By Willow Higgins and Ryan Kost, Columbia Journalism Investigations.
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