Wrongful Conviction In Criminal Law Cases

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The topic I chose involved criminal justice. I narrowed my search by deciding to focus on cases where people are wrongly accused of a crime, how that happens and how it impacts people that go through it. The reason I picked this for the passion project is because I have always liked reading about criminology and different criminal law cases. I also am interested in doing something involving that in college and for a career. To narrow my search, I am looking at the general idea of wrongful accusation, and also reading about specific cases where this actually happened. An interesting piece of information that I learned was that there are many different causes of wrongful conviction. For example, government officials take steps to ensure that

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