{"id":704,"date":"2011-01-05T22:11:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T22:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2011\/01\/anatomy-of-a-wrongful-conviction-p1.html"},"modified":"2011-01-05T22:11:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T22:11:40","slug":"anatomy-of-a-wrongful-conviction-p1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2011\/01\/anatomy-of-a-wrongful-conviction-p1.html","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction (p1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/assets_c\/2011\/01\/dupree-20722.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/109\/import\/assets_c\/2011\/01\/dupree-thumb-200x124-20722.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"124\" alt=\"\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It&#8217;s almost normal for us to hear the story of a wrongfully<br \/>\nconvicted person going free after years in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The latest? <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20110104\/ap_on_re_us\/us_dna_exoneration_texas\">Cornelius Dupree Jr. who was declared innocent after serving 30 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.<\/a> &nbsp;Dupree, now 51 said, &#8220;Whatever your truth is, you have to stick with it&#8221; and &#8220;It&#8217;s a joy to be free again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b>Let us discover together the why&#8217;s and what&#8217;s of wrongful convictions. &nbsp;<\/b>Over the next few posts we&#8217;ll explore questions such as: &nbsp;Have we executed an innocent man? &nbsp;How many wrongful convictions are there per year? &nbsp;And, why do they happen?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost normal for us to hear the story of a wrongfully convicted person going free after years in prison. 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Cornelius Dupree Jr. who was declared innocent after serving 30 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. &nbsp;Dupree, now 51 said, &#8220;Whatever your truth is, you have to stick with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction (p1) - The Jazz Theologian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2011\/01\/anatomy-of-a-wrongful-conviction-p1.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction (p1) - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s almost normal for us to hear the story of a wrongfully convicted person going free after years in prison. 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