It was heartening to read an article that aired the quest for justice for Kevin Cooper , an innocent man who was convicted of murder based on nothing but circumstantial evidence and a total disregard for the truth.
Both law enforcement officials and prosecutors are implicated in deliberate obfuscation of the facts. He has been waiting for exoneration since 1983. But don't think for a moment that this is an isolated case.
Just read one of a number of books on this subject, for example the eye-opening account by Jim McCloskey, the founder of Centurion Ministries, When Truth Is All You Have, in which he describes a few of the many cases of false convictions that he and his team have investigated over the years. Or read Solitary by Albert Woodfox, who served more than four decades in solitary confinement for a crime he did not commit.