Browsing: Wrongful Convictions

Patricia Cummings, former supervisor of the Conviction Integrity and Special Investigations Unit at the Philadelphia DA’s  Office, takes the helm of the National Registry of Exonerations this week. In a conversation with TCR’s Maurice Possley, she discusses the challenge facing the innocence movement at a vexing time for reform.

According to the National Registry of Exonerations, “official misconduct” was a contributing factor in more than 70 percent of last year’s exonerations, such as the case of Muhammad Aziz, wrongfully convicted in the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X.