In the world before we could use DNA evidence, there were many wrongful convictions At this point with the technology to look at DNA there are many cases being looked at again, whether it is by the state or by the Innocence Project.
In 1958 Lori Roscetti was murdered and three teenage boys were wrongfully convicted of the crime. here body was found on some train tracks. The police told the first teenager that if he confessed to the crime than he could go home, but after confessing he was put in jail. the police made up a whole story surrounding the incident to make the teenagers sound guilty. The story came from a theory by one man, not from fact.
One of the most interesting quotes from the story is when the person is talking about how they get people to confess to crimes that they do not actually commit, they just continue to batter the person with questions about it and eventually the person may believe that they did it, like in the case of the boy who was convinced that he killed his sister. It was also interesting when the teenage boys were talking about the Lori Roscetti case and they are saying that they could hear the guards watching TV and the guards were watching the news and on the news they were talking about the boys that were convicted. The police even called some people to try to get some fake witnesses to testify against the boys in court.
Although there have been many wrongful convictions and the courts may sometimes take the side of the prosecutor rather than the defendant. If you get the correct attorney they can help you prove your innocence. Not everyone that is convicted of a crime is guilty, just like with the three teenage boys.
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