Due Process

1.A significant amount of innocent defendants have been convicted based on perjury. 
2. Barry Scheck, who was a lawyer who helped defend O.J. Simpson, is the leader of a movement to free innocent inmates.  
3.There are procedures to ensure that eye-witness identification is accurate, like the "double-blind" procedure.
4. Prosecution must be willing to admit that it made some mistakes to allow more exonerations.
5.  In California, it takes 25 years from the sentence to execution for people on Death Row.  California may abolish the death penalty.
6. In 1992, a man called Kevin Rojas was sentenced for life for a crime he did not commit.
7. The lead/reasoning for his conviction was the orange color of his jacket, and false witnesses.
8 Only 5% of cases use DNA to help figure out who is guilty is a crime.
9. Rojas spent 4 and a half years in jail before the court figured out the injustice of their wrong decision.
10 Since there was no concrete or DNA evidence in the case for lawyers to work with, they had to use many more methods of crime solving to figure out the case; which is probably why it took so long to get Rojas free.


Q's.
1. Should not there be more laws to prevent false witnesses?
2. Is there a punishment for false reporting of witness?
3. Is there a government compensation for people who were accused falsely?
4. Since even OJ subtlety admitted that he was guilty of the crime after court ruled him innocent, should not the government take action?
5. How many people in prison are innocent?