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Wrongful Convictions Student’s Name Student ID Professor’s Name Date of Submission Many Americans have the presupposition that the criminal justice system is fair and blind. Most assume that within the criminal justice system no individual shall ever be imprisoned for a crime he/she did not commit. The concept that a free citizen can be unjustly sentenced to imprisonment or executed by the government through its justice system does not seem to make sense to most citizens. Wrongful incarceration is terrifying. Every person living in the United States has the constitutional right to due process and a right to trial by a jury of choice. It is the role of the state to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty of the crime that they are being accused of committing. This system is meant to protect the innocent rather than get convictions. Children are told in school to trust and have faith in the criminal justice system since the innocent are protected and need not fear. Such guarantees make people believe that the criminal justice system is impartial and therefore only the guilty will have to pay for their sins. Regrettably, the judicial process sentences innocent people to imprisonment or execution due to eyewitness misidentification, false confessions, government misconduct, lousy lawyering and junk science among other causes. The criminal justice system has been unable to guarantee the conviction of the guilty or the acquittal of the innocent. Various safeguards have been placed that make it hard to convict the innocent and acquit the guilty. All that this system does is to guarantee a fair trial. However, a fair trial does not ensure the
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