4.5/5 gifted by the publisher

Absolutely haunting recounting of wrongful convictions. I really appreciate the details the authors went into, not just the legal aspects of each cases, but also provides overall systemic issues within the justice system (be it racism, contaminated witnesses, shoddy science, unethical police practices etc)

What is terrifying is that regardless of how much better science has become, it seems that the justice system largely depends on a few people’s opinions and gut feelings to sway a case one way or another. Like there are several cases when given a no match in DNA testing, the prosecutors are then persuaded there must be accomplices (rather than they have the wrong person/people)

A worthwhile read that is deeply unsettling to say the least