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  2. You Have the Right to Remain Innocent - Wikipedia

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    You Have the Right to Remain Innocent is a 2016 non-fiction book by James Joseph Duane, a legal professor, published by Little A Books. It explains his belief why under almost all circumstances citizens should not talk to the police. He emphasizes that police officers tell their own children to never speak with the police. [1]

  3. National Registry of Exonerations - Wikipedia

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    A 2017 report highlighted that although African Americans form 13% of the American population, they accounted for 47% of the exonerations on the Registry. To which must be added most of the 1,800 additional innocent defendants who were framed and convicted of crimes in 15 large-scale police scandals and later cleared in "group exonerations". [2]

  4. Talk:You Have the Right to Remain Innocent - Wikipedia

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  5. Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    By its text, the Seventh Amendment guarantees that in “[s]uits at common law, . . . the right of trial by jury shall be preserved.” In construing this language, we have noted that the right is not limited to the “common-law forms of action recognized” when the Seventh Amendment was ratified. Curtis v. Loether, 415 U. S. 189, 193 (1974 ...

  6. Actual innocence - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, establishing "actual innocence" after a conviction may be considerably more difficult than winning an acquittal at trial, however. At trial, the defendant enjoys a due process right to the presumption of innocence, and the State is obligated to prove the guilt of the accused beyond a reasonable doubt. See, e.g., Cochran v.

  7. Right to silence - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of English judge Sir Edward Coke. Neither the reasons nor the history behind the right to silence are entirely clear. The Latin brocard nemo tenetur se ipsum accusare ('no man is bound to accuse himself') became a rallying cry for religious and political dissidents who were prosecuted in the Star Chamber and High Commission of 16th-century England.

  8. Coffin v. United States - Wikipedia

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    It is the duty of the judge, in all jurisdictions, when requested, and in some when not requested, to explain the presumption of innocence to the jury in his charge. The usual formula in which this doctrine is expressed is that every man is presumed to be innocent until his guilt is proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Court membership; Chief Justice

  9. Right to truth - Wikipedia

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    Right to truth is the right, in the case of grave violations of human rights, for the victims and their families or societies to have access to the truth of what happened. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The right to truth is closely related to, but distinct from, the state obligation to investigate and prosecute serious state violations of human rights.