Due Process

Facts:
1 Exoneration is when a person who has been convicted of a crime is later proved to have been innocent of that crime.
2. Eye witnesses can be unreliable.
3. Only 5% of criminal cases have biological evidence.
4. The ineffective assistance of counsel claim is often used as a proxy for new evidence.
5. There are 55 innocence projects in the United States.
6. Barry Shneck was on OJ Simpson's defense team.
7. Texas has more executions than any state.
8. A person given the death penalty may wait up to 25 years to be executed.
9. 2 to 3 percent of those in prison are estimated to be guilty.
10. One innocence project is called last resort.

Questions:
1. How often are innocent people found guilty?
2. Is DNA evidence reliable 100% of the time?
3. How can the risk of error be reduced?
4. Why does it take so long to execute someone?
5. Why is the system flawed so that innocent people are found guilty, yet many guilty people are found innocent?