21.   Such meager fees often buy minimal or no defense, which greatly increases the possibility of a wrongful conviction.

22.   The death-penalty commission appointed by Ryan will examine the cases that led to wrongful convictions in Illinois.

23.   The Illinois commission also suggested videotaping all statements, to minimize coercion, since about one in five wrongful convictions appear to rest on false confessions.

24.   The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which rules on many claims of innocence, does not track wrongful conviction cases, court clerks said.

25.   These periodic crackdowns and the widespread use of execution have received broad popular support in China, despite the likelihood of wrongful convictions.

26.   To reduce the likelihood of miscarriages of justice and to attempt to overturn wrongful convictions.

27.   Ward James, who fits both categories, is a Florida reporter investigating the possibly wrongful conviction of a man on death row.

28.   Wrongful convictions occur despite best efforts of prosecutors because defendants, especially those who are indigent, sometimes get bad lawyers and are unable to mount adequate defenses.

29.   And other forensic methods, such as hair analysis, were involved in about two-thirds of those wrongful convictions.

30.   Camanche wrote Rep. Robert C. Scott, D-Va., who invited Washington to his office to discuss wrongful convictions.