Criminal
Mar. 10, 2016
Berkeley report tallies costs of justice system errors
False felony convictions in California's criminal justice system cost taxpayers more than $282 million between 1989 and 2012, according to a study released Tuesday.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
False felony convictions in California's criminal justice system cost taxpayers more than $282 million between 1989 and 2012, according to a study released Tuesday.
The co-authors - Rebecca Silbert of the UC Berkeley School of Law and John Hollway of the University of Pennsylvania Law School - limited their tally to cases in which the defendant was first convicted of a...
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