Government Misconduct involved in 54% of exoneree cases, 78% of murder cases involving Black defendants....Police Behavior Matters! pt3
This week on Turning A Moment Into a Movement, our guest is Niecola Hlima. She will be discussing the Wrongful Conviction of her husband Vargas Johnson and his brother Marco. This is a story of corrupt police, coerced and concocted lies of witnesses who have recanted in court.
According to the National Institute of Justice, the main contributing factors for wrongful convictions in the US fall into the following six categories:
Mistaken witness or eyewitness identification
False confession
False or misleading forensic evidence, or its misapplication
Perjury or false accusation, informants
Official and government misconduct
Inadequate legal defense
-Between 2% and 10% of convicted individuals in US prisons are innocent.
-2,666 people have been exonerated in the US since 1989.
-Proven innocent people have served more than 23,950 years in prison so far.
-Out of 100 sentenced to death, 4 are likely innocent, but only 2 get exonerated.
-69% of wrongful conviction cases happen due to eyewitness misidentification.
-False confessions account for 29% of wrongful convictions.
-Official misconduct plays a part in 31% of murder exonerations.
-False accusations are present in 70% of wrongful convictions.
With 2.3 million incarcerated individuals in the United States, we can see that the number of innocent people behind bars is anywhere from 46,000 to 230,000....that's too many people!!!!
Join Jay Love from The Justice for Gerard Movement along with the panel:
-Attorney Hugo Mack,
-Trischè Duckworth, Survivors Speak
-Rev Tia Littlejohn, Life Coach & Behavioral Therapist
-Ally Hughes, Michigan Liberation and Accountability Dearborn
.....for TURNING A MOMENT INTO A MOVEMENT!
.....TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE JUSTICE FOR GERARD MOVEMENT, go to...... www.change.org/Justice4GERARD
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