The innocence experiment
For nearly 20 years, the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission has helped incarcerated people who have evidence of their innocence walk free. But despite over a dozen headline-grabbing success stories, this independent state agency remains incredibly rare in the American legal system. In fact, there's no other neutral government-run agency like it in the entire country. And this bold experiment could soon come to an end.
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Michael Hewlett, criminal justice reporter for The Assembly
Will Michaels, reporter and host for WUNC-North Carolina Public Radio
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