Exonerated delineates the origin story of the “innocence movement,” a highly publicized pivot in legal circles in the late twentieth century toward the wrongful conviction of innocent persons. Robert J. Norris focuses mostly on the key players involved in the early days of using forensic DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) to exonerate innocents. The protagonists are figures such as Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, founders of the Innocence Project, an organization that has been responsible for hundreds of exonerations and has spawned dozens of similar organizations worldwide. Norris devotes few pages to the stories of the wrongfully convicted, which is bad and good. On the one hand, even persons with familiarity with the innocent movement are drawn to the riveting tales of men such as...
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