Wrongful convictions are not usually thought of but there is a numerous amount of people that have been wrongly convicted throughout the years. Within the US there is about 2 million people behind bars meaning that 1% or 20,000 people are in for a crime they did not commit. But however, in 2015 only 149 people were cleared of a crime they didn’t not commit. Also, recent studies have said 1 out of 25 people on death row is likely innocent. One good website that has a list and the stories of people that were wrongly convicted is innocence project.
One of the many people on the innocence project website is Angel Gonzalez. Angel was misidentified and charged with sexual assault and kidnapping in the state of Illinois on July 10, 1994. After Angel was arrested the police misled him into signing a false confession, even though he knew from the start he was innocent. After seven years they had a DNA that did not match with Gonzalez, but that wasn’t enough for them since there were two people involved in the crime. However, in March
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Gilchrist also claimed that his blood type matched the blood type of sperm that was found on Willis's body. After that trail the jury found McCarty guilty and was sentenced to death. Throughout the trail the attorney Robert H. Macy never provided or presented the jury withholding key evidence that that was McCarty's hair and blood type. For two years, McCarty was on the death row until Oklahoma's court overturned his conviction due to lack of proof and comments made on the stand by Gilchrist and McCarty was retired in 1989 but with Gilchrist testifying again. Again, he was convicted and sentenced to death because Gilchrist told the jury the hair from the scene was McCarty's. Once more McCarty was on trial for a new sentence because of jury instruction problem in the trial before, but once again McCarty was sentenced to