Convicted but innocent: wrongful conviction and public policy

With apologies to the prisoner

Causes celebres: The Dreyfus Affair, The Scottsboro Boys, The Lindbergh baby kidnapping, The sad saga of Isidore Zimmerman, Randall Dale Adams: injustice in Dallas, "Ivan the Terrible," or a terrible case of mistaken identity?, The Bradley Cox case

How could this have happened?

What did they really see? The problems of eyewitness identification

False confessions, Miranda notwithstanding

Wrongful conviction and public policy : what can be done?