ABSTRACT
I always thought-my whole life I’ve been practicing law, especially as a criminal defense attorney-that 98 percent, 99 percent, of the people convicted by juries and judges must be guilty. And now I look at this new data which shows that with DNA testing they’re exonerating 25 percent of the people accused in sexual assault cases, and I’m completely freaked out by the number, because it tells me that the number of people who are unjustly convicted in our system is extraordinarily high, is a number that we as a democracy can’t live with, is a number that I want to do everything that I can to change.
