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I did think about that titling thing, but, alas, couldn't come up with something better at 3:00 in the morning.
The statistics that have been presented aren't very helpful to an argument against this policy. According to the links, there were 8,470 sucessfully appealed convictions from 1988-1999. According to the Bureau of Justice, the capacity of all prisons in the US totals 1,278,471. So at the most, wrongly convicted criminals make up .62 percent of the prison population. There were less than 200 overturned by DNA evidence, that tallies to less than one-tenth of a percent. Comparatively, I know people with more people on their AIM buddy list. It's an extremely small margin of error.
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