11.   Granted, none of this might have caught fire with church-going citizens except for the cases of wrongful convictions and legal errors increasingly coming to light.

12.   It is unclear how many Texas prisoners have been released because of wrongful convictions or how many have sought or received pardons.

13.   It was the largest payout for wrongful conviction in Canadian history.

14.   Lawsuits for wrongly convicted ex-convicts are an uphill battle because the state, prosecutors, and police have immunity, lawyers familiar with wrongful convictions cases say.

15.   New evidence of wrongful convictions is intensifying that worry and leading to what the folks at the Gallup Organization consider a substantial shift in public opinion.

16.   New York, however, is taking steps that could make wrongful convictions more likely.

17.   Of all the causes of wrongful conviction, the false confession has to rank among the most astounding.

18.   Others say that Race is able to unravel wrongful convictions because he knows the investigative slipknots, having bound up innocent people himself.

19.   Proponents contend that safeguards have been built into the bill to satisfy constitutional concerns and to protect against wrongful convictions.

20.   Rather, opponents plan to point to the rising number of wrongful convictions in death-penalty cases around the country, he said.