Scheck estimates there are hundreds, if not thousands, of people in prison paying for crimes they did not commit. Snitches tell lies. Confessions are coerced or fabricated. Racism trumps the truth. Lab tests are rigged.
Defense lawyers sleep.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, in February introduced the Innocence Protection Act, which received support from a handful of lawmakers, including Michigan Democratic Sen. Carl Levin. If there have been mistakes made, we should correct them. We don't have a perfect judicial system. Mistakes have been made. Unless we have a perfect justice system, we should have standards and criteria for DNA testing.