The ABA Law Journal brings us this headline: Prisoner exonerations are at an all-time high, and it’s not because of DNA testing , which states "Of the 87 known exonerations in 2013, 27 were cases in which no crimes had taken place. Almost half of the no-crime exonerations were for nonviolent-crime charges, mostly drug convictions." Law professor Samuel Gross have created a National Registry of Exonerations . Professor Gross and his colleagues primarily find exoneration cases through news articles. Curious to try your hand at finding cases with exonerated defendants by looking at newspaper articles? We have a number of resources here in the law library for electronic versions of newspapers. In our Accuracy Check Resource research guide, for example, we've listed a number of them . The research guide also includes a link to all of the newspaper databases to which OSU has subscribed. Factiva , Press Display , LexisNexis , Westlaw , and BloombergLaw are also online sourc
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