Authority on Wrongful Convictions Says U.S. Judicial System Is Weighted Against Claims of Innocence

Professor Daniel Medwed is working with the Midwest Innocence Project to investigate the Earnest Jackson case and determine whether there are new options to appeal the conviction. “People need to understand more generally that some convictions are shaky and there are innocent people in prison,” Medwed said in The Nebraska Examiner. “We don’t know the number. But all systems designed by humans are fallible.”