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4 Wrongful Conviction Cases To Watch In 2021

Crime Zone Jan 29, 2021

There is perhaps no failure of the justice system more obvious than when an innocent person is locked up for a crime they didn’t commit. While this can happen for a variety of reasons, such as bad forensics, investigative tunnel vision, or just plain incompetence, the results are the same — an innocent person is forced to languish behind bars while the real perpetrator walks free.

While the wheels of justice often turn frustratingly slow when it comes to correcting these mistakes, thanks to the work of organizations like the Innocence Project, victims of wrongful incarceration are sometimes able to clear their names, and gain their freedom. In honor of the new year, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at a few active wrongful conviction cases that we think will be interesting to watch in 2021.

We should say as a disclaimer that in all of these cases we can never be 100% sure that a person is innocent. Nonetheless, we’ve tried to choose stories where we feel the evidence is fairly compelling in favour of a conviction being overturned.

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Alright, with that out of the way here are “4 Wrongful Conviction Cases To Watch In 2021”.