Researchers
found that 149 people were cleared in 2015 for crimes they didn't commit --
more than any other year in history, according to The Huffington Post. The details were part of a report
published Wednesday by the National Registry of Exonerations, a
project of the University of Michigan Law School.
By comparison, 139 people
were exonerated in 2014. The number has risen most years since 2005, when 61
people were cleared of crimes they didn't commit.
“Historically,
this is a very large number for a type of event that we’d like to think almost
never happens or just doesn’t happen,” Samuel Gross, a University of Michigan
law professor who helped write the report, told The Huffington Post.
The men and
women who were cleared last year had, on average, served 14.5 years in
prison. Some had been on death row. Others were younger than 18 when they
were convicted or had intellectual disabilities. All had been swept into a
justice system that's supposed to be based on the presumption of innocence, but
failed.
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