Peacock’s case was especially egregious because it involved a false confession from a mentally ill man. Says IP co-director Peter Neufeld, with Peacock’s exoneration, “New York becomes the nation’s capital of false confessions.” Since 2002, 10 people in New York have been exonerated through DNA testing after false confessions or admissions led to wrongful convictions–a third of all all DNA exonerations in that period.
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