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DNA Evidence Upends Twenty Years of Convictions
When DNA technology became available in the 1990s, urban prosecutors faced an uncomfortable reckoning: many convictions secured through eyewitness testimony and circumstantial evidence were provably wrong. This episode reconstructs the moment when the Innocence Project began systematically exonerating prisoners in major cities, forcing law enforcement and prosecutors to confront their own investigative failures. We examine specific cases from New York, Illinois, and California where DNA evidence contradicted the narratives prosecutors had constructed and juries had accepted. The hosts analyze…
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