Samuel R. Gross
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Samuel Raymond Gross (born 1946) is an American
Gross is the editor of the National Registry of Exonerations project.[1]
Samuel Gross has been leading a team of lawyers in
Background
Before coming to Michigan Law, Gross served as an attorney for the United Farm Workers Union in California and the Wounded Knee Legal Defense Committee in Nebraska and South Dakota. He came to Michigan Law from the faculty at
Career
Gross led a team that investigated exonerations in the United States from 1989 to 2003. They determined that during that 15-year period, 340 exonerations were given, of which 144 were cleared by DNA evidence. 80% of the exonerated individuals had been imprisoned for at least 5 years.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Faculty profile: Samuel R. Gross, University of Michigan Law School. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
- ^ Pilkington, Ed (April 28, 2014). "US death row study: 4% of defendants sentenced to die are innocent". The Guardian. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
- ^ "Samuel R. Gross". University of Michigan Law School. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
- JSTOR 3491344.
External links
- The Griffin Report
- Exonerations in the United States, 1989 through 2003.
- Eckholm, Eric (February 24, 1995). Studies Find Death Penalty Tied to Race Of the Victims. The New York Times
- Liptak, Adam (April 19, 2004). "Study Suspects Thousands of False Convictions." The New York Times
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