The Most Important Factor in the Majority of the Cases

question 154

Multiple Choice

The most important factor in the majority of the cases, more than 75 percent, where DNA evidence led to the overturning of a unjust conviction of an innocent person was

• A) false confessions.
• B) mistaken eyewitness identification.
• C) the use of jailhouse snitches.
• D) the use of "junk" science.

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