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At least 36 people: Child sexual abuse* Kern County, California: Varied Varied Some The Kern County child abuse cases are a notable example of day-care sex-abuse hysteria of the 1980s. [119] The cases involved claims that a pedophile sex ring performed Satanic ritual abuse: as many as 60 young children testified they had been abused. At least ...
According to Gross, "these cases merely point to a much larger number of tragedies that we do not know about." [5] The registry and report includes cases of defendants convicted of crimes that never occurred, cases involving false confessions, and cases involving innocent defendants who pleaded guilty. The new report reveals many more ...
An innocent person is more likely to be convicted when one or more witnesses have an incentive to testify, and those incentives are not disclosed to the jury. [29] According to the National Registry of Exonerations, 57% of cases where the convicted person was eventually exonerated involves perjury or false accusations. [30]
Of all the cases taken on by the Innocence Project so far, about 43% of clients were proven innocent, 42% were confirmed guilty, and evidence was inconclusive and not probative in 15% of cases. In about 40% of all DNA exoneration cases, law enforcement officials identified the actual perpetrator based on the same DNA test results that led to an ...
The case tested how far law enforcement agents appearing in trials as expert witnesses can go in telling a jury that defendants in certain drug trafficking cases generally have a "guilty mind."
On June 18, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared drug abuse "public enemy number one" in a message to Congress. His message also called for federal resources to be used for the "prevention of new addicts and the rehabilitation of those who are addicted." Following this, the media began using the term "War on Drugs". [29]
A divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that authorities do not have to provide a quick hearing when they seize cars and other property used in drug crimes, even when the property belongs to so ...
Other well-represented crimes among illegal immigrants known to be living in the US include sexual assault — with 523 convicted or suspected rapists in ICE custody and 20,061 not — and assault ...