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The Rise of False Confessions
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The introduction of DNA testing in 1989 led to a flood of exonerations, including those of nearly 400 people who falsely confessed to crimes they didn't commit, exposing problems in the criminal justice system such as unreliability of eyewitness testimony, junk forensic science, prosecutorial misconduct, and racial bias.

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