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by renewedrebecca 503 days ago
Then why does this sort of thing keep happening?

This is another reason why police officers should be required to carry malpractice insurance, that they pay for.

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How often does it happen? 0.1% of cases? 0.01%?
That figure sounds right - if you're talking about prosecutors being punished.

  A survey conducted by the Innocence Project, Innocence Project New Orleans, Resurrection After Exoneration and the Veritas Initiative looked at five diverse states over a five-year period (2004-2008) and identified 660 cases in which courts found prosecutors committed misconduct, such as tampering with key evidence, withholding evidence from the defendant or coercing a witness to give false testimony. [..] Of the 660 cases examined, only one prosecutor accused of misconduct was disciplined.
https://innocenceproject.org/why-holding-prosecutors-account...