For the past 10 years I have been involved in the difficult, anguishing but exhilarating work of exonerating those who have been wrongfully convicted. Perhaps the greatest obstacle encountered by lawyers who practice in this area is the unwillingness of the offices of district attorneys to objectively and independently undertake a review of these serious claims. Often investigation into prosecutorial misconduct is conducted by colleagues.
There is also a natural resistance to acknowledging that the office may have made a mistake, both in wrongfully imprisoning an innocent person and in allowing the real culprit to go free.
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