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RMIC Fall 2009 Newsletter Released
The Rocky Mountain Innocence Center (RMIC) works to correct and prevent the conviction of innocent people in Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. RMIC also conducts education and advocacy about the causes and consequences of wrongful convictions.
Following RMICs legislative successes last year in Utah and Wyoming, RMIC worked this year with state officials and others to draft and pass two important laws in Nevada one giving access to postconviction DNA testing to prisoners claiming innocence, the other mandating
the preservation of physical evidence containing DNA evidence for the length of the prisoners sentence.
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In any system of justice, there is an inherent risk that innocent people may be wrongly convicted of crimes they did not commit. The first documented wrongful conviction in the United States occurred in 1812, and researchers have identified hundreds of wrongful convictions in rape and murder cases since. The most recent study establishes an error rate of 3 to 5 percent in felony rape and murder convictions in the United States, meaning that tens of thousands of innocent people may be in prison.
RMIC Featured in Salt Lake Magazine Article
The Rocky Mountain Innocence Center was created by University of Utah law professor Lionel Frankel in 2000 as part of a national movement sparked by improved science, particularly DNA testing, that revealed flaws in the U.S. justice system. High-profile cases of innocent people locked up in Texas and Illinois, including death-row inmates, spurred the creation of dozens of innocence-related programs across the country.
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Phone: 801-355-1888 E-Mail: RMIC_Qwest.net
