Since it is Black History Month (which should just be American History, I'll say it every time), we talk about racism in convictions and exonerations. We get super mad in this one!
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Sources;
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-10-07/black-people-wrongful-convictions-exonerations
https://innocenceproject.org/cases/calvin-johnson/
https://innocenceproject.org/cases/kevin-bailey/
https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/551-jon-burge
https://theintercept.com/2018/09/25/jon-burge-chicago-police-torture/
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3329
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/Race%20Report%20Preview.pdf
(The last link is the one we reference the most in this episode for statistics! Give it a read if you have time!)
