A wrongful conviction can be concealed by a plea, a trial and especially the unforgiving barriers to post-conviction review. The U.S. Supreme Court’s tentativeness in recognizing actual innocence illustrates the slow pace of progress. Still, a system of justice cannot have a point of no return. So it is that claims of innocence might be revitalized by new procedures and new technologies.
Until recently, the federal courts and most state jurisdictions only acknowledged actual innocence claims as a gateway or equitable tolling exception.1 But the landscape has begun to change.2 The newest information channels in pursuit of justice are free standing actual innocence and reinvestigation.
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