Federal Prosecutors Launch Conviction Integrity Unit To Identify Wrongful Convictions

 Federal prosecutors in the District said Thursday that they will launch the first conviction integrity unit within a U.S. attorney’s office to identify potential wrongful convictions, responding to a series of exonerations in the past five years stemming from flawed FBI forensic evidence and testimony.  The full article in the Washington Post is here:  

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/dc-prosecutors-create-unit-to-find-wrongful-convictions/2014/09/11/91a3722c-39da-11e4-bdfb-de4104544a37_story.html