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Minority defendants are much more likely to be wrongly convicted. “90% of all exonerated juvenile defendants were black or Hispanic, an extreme disparity."

Exonerations in the United States 1989 through 2003

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

Gross, Samuel R. / Jacoby, Kristen / Matheson, Daniel J. / Montgomery, Nicholas

Vol. 95 Issue 2, pp. 523-560, 2004– 2005

https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/jclc/vol95/iss2/5/

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