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A prosecutor in Ft. Worth, Texas, lied when he said Paul Storey, who was guilty of murder during a robbery, told the jury that the victim’s family believed the death penalty was appropriate. It turned out that the prosecutor lied and misled the jury about that fact. (Courtesy of The Marshall Project)

Report Reveals Alarming Amount of Systemic Police and Prosecutorial Misconduct

by Stacy M. Brown September 16, 2020December 21, 2021

The report, “Government Misconduct and Convicting the Innocent: The Role of Prosecutors, Police and other Law Enforcement,” highlights examinations conducted by the National Registry of Exonerations of more than 2,400 nationwide cases that measured the role of government misconduct in wrongful convictions and how African Americans specifically have suffered from those actions.