Study: NY Failing to Act on Wrongful Convictions

"In New York, DNA evidence has exonerated 23 people wrongfully convicted of crimes since 1991, but the state has failed to enact laws that would prevent sending more innocent people to jail. A study released on Thursday by the Innocence Project, an organization dedicated to exonerating the wrongfully convicted through DNA testing, found New York second only to Texas and Illinois in using DNA to clear the wrongfully convicted. But while Texas enacted a law mandating the preservation of crime scene DNA evidence and Illinois halted executions, New York has left its laws unchanged, said a report entitled 'Lessons Not Learned'."