If you think an innocent man doesn’t need a lawyer…

by thecodepounder on January 25, 2010 at 7:05am

…then consider for a moment the fact that nearly one quarter (25%) of the cases of DNA exoneration in the United States involve a false confession. Remember that the next time you say to yourself that you (or your kid) would never confess to something you didn’t do…

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