What Was the Foremost Cause of Wrongful Convictions in Capital

question 15

Multiple Choice

What was the foremost cause of wrongful convictions in capital cases found by Bedau and Radelet and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University Law School?

• A) perjury by prosecution witnesses
• B) eyewitness misidentification
• C) false confessions
• D) failure of prosecutors to dismiss the charges against ostensibly innocent defendants
• E) none of the above

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