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Innocent until reported guilty

I've spent a great deal of time on Grits discussing a panoply of possible innocence reforms, from improving eyewitness ID procedures to requiring corroboration and reliability tests for informants to improving forensic labs and recording police interrogations. But in Miller-McCune Magazine Steve Weinberg suggests that improved journalism about crime and punishment may be the best remedy:One solution for wrongful convictions, however, has not been explored in a sustained, meaningful manner. It is a solution that cannot be legislated or even come from the government. The solution requires writers and editors for newspapers, magazines, radio stations, television stations, Web sites and books to practice preventive journalism rather than after-the-conviction, too-late journalism...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on September 24, 2008 (boomark / email).