Wrongful Convictions News #2

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Across
  1. 1. Plea or discounted deal
  2. 5. Detain
  3. 10. Guidelines given to jury
  4. 11. Conditional freedom
  5. 12. Conviction _______ units
  6. 14. Describes an exoneration of a person after that person has died
  7. 17. Lethal punishment
  8. 19. Prison officer
  9. 20. Confinement that most think is cruel and unusual punishment
  10. 23. Newest category in the causes of wrongful convictions; Incentivized/threatened witnesses (2 words)
  11. 29. Defendant's answer to charges
  12. 30. Accuser
  13. 31. NYTimes bestseller "________ Cotton"
  14. 32. John Grisham's only non-fiction book, "The Innocent _____"
  15. 34. Confess
  16. 35. Type of murder that does not appear on the UCR
  17. 36. Initials for grossly inadequate representation
  18. 39. Bad cops do this with evidence or a Dieffenbachia
  19. 40. Hint or Blues
  20. 42. Not at liberty to leave
  21. 44. Host of annual wrongful conviction conference, The Innocence ______
  22. 46. Found not guilty
  23. 47. Unsolved
  24. 48. Too much or unnecessary
  25. 49. Lawyer
  26. 50. Heart or violent
  27. 51. Severe abuse; attack
  28. 53. Examine
Down
  1. 2. Facility
  2. 3. Your home if sentenced to more than a year
  3. 4. Foremost DNA expert who coined the phrase "the guilty project" when referring to DNA exposing the real perpetrator
  4. 6. Found on sleeves
  5. 7. Word that appears three times in sworn oath
  6. 8. ______ v. Maryland
  7. 9. Overturned conviction
  8. 13. Best-selling author who sits on The Innocence Project's Board of Directors
  9. 15. Lack of justice
  10. 16. Court proceeding
  11. 18. How many states have the death penalty (2 words)
  12. 21. Has a history of breaking the law
  13. 22. Magazine that featured wrongful convictions on the cover in February 2017
  14. 24. Inmate home
  15. 25. wrong-doing
  16. 26. Modify
  17. 27. Warning to keep your mouth shut
  18. 28. An amendment that requires due process
  19. 29. Prison
  20. 31. _____-conviction or _____mark
  21. 33. Reveal
  22. 35. Common no-crime offense
  23. 37. State that has the most death row exonerations
  24. 38. Conviction
  25. 41. Document that determines if laws are legal
  26. 43. Crime or opposite of defense
  27. 45. Gene used to predict behavior
  28. 49. "Be the ______ you wish to see..."
  29. 52. Lowest form of knowledge