image credit: Jonathunder ccIn the United States alone, there have been a total of 311 post-conviction DNA exonerations involving innocent people serving sentences for crimes that they did not commit. The average sentence that is served by these wrongfully convicted individuals is 13.6 years.
Commonly, they are the victims of eyewitness misidentification, invalid forensic evidence, overzealous law enforcement officers, and inept defense counsel. Here are ten stories of convictions that have been reversed through DNA evidence, counting down to the longest wrongful sentences served.
