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Paid per conviction

2015-05-01 15:18:03.880925+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Study finds that state crime labs are paid per conviction:

In a new paper for the journal Criminal Justice Ethics, Roger Koppl and Meghan Sacks look at how the criminal justice system actually incentivizes wrongful convictions. In their section on state crime labs, they discover some astonishing new information about how many of these labs are funded.

Guess how impartial that's gonna make those processes...

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