False Justice Quotes

“if the system is 99 percent accurate, 22,284 innocent persons are in prison. If the system is 99.9 percent accurate, that is still 2,228 innocent people in prison.”
― Jim Petro, False Justice: Eight Myths that Convict the Innocent

“Q. How many convicts in American prisons today are totally innocent of the crime? A. Only God knows.”
― Jim Petro, False Justice: Eight Myths that Convict the Innocent

“once convicted, a prisoner’s opportunity to prove his or her innocence is extremely remote and requires an army of pro bono lawyers and tenacious family members willing to work for years at great expense without any guarantee of restoring justice.”
― Jim Petro, False Justice: Eight Myths that Convict the Innocent