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The outright dishonesty of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED), and police ineptitude and deceit led to one man serving thirty years on death row in a South Carolina prison for a crime he did not commit.

New Jersey police interrogated a man with severe learning disabilities for thirty hours during a forty hour period when he was considered one of two suspects in the murder of his girlfriend’s two children. After the questioning by police led to a signed confession, officers stopped investigating the other suspect in the murder case.

Prescription drugs have long been a problem when it comes to policing what is being taken as prescribed and what is abuse. The biggest problem is that “With prescription drugs, they’re legal to get, legal to possess. Whereas the other illegal drugs, they’re not legal to possess,” according to Onondaga County Deputy Sheriff Herb Wiggins.

Religious observance conflicts with his parents had one young Jewish man sleeping at a Jewish youth center in Brooklyn. Unfortunately for this young man, a volunteer at the center did not realize he had the Rabbi’s permission to sleep there, and, when the young man refused to leave, called the police.

Attorneys for a West Virginia inmate serving time in prison for robbery and rape, claim DNA testing proves their client did not commit the crimes that sent him to prison. However, even with the recent DNA proof of his innocence, the court refused to set the man free, stating prosecutors would need more time to respond to the recent DNA results, and the case was adjourned until March.

Lynn DeJac Peters spent over thirteen years behind bars for a crime she didn’t commit; a crime, according to her attorneys, in which key pieces of evidence were either intentionally ignored or missed, which then led to a cover-up by Erie County’s top prosecutors as well as the city’s homicide squad detectives.

Long Island is famous for its beautiful beach, local vineyard, championship golf course, incredible mansions, and lighthouses. The one thing this gem of New York doesn’t want to be famous for is heroin related deaths. But in less than a year, they’ve already experienced four deaths as a result of heroin overdose.

Dr. Robert Shomer, an eyewitness expert and the subject of CBS’s “48 Hours: Presumed Guilty,” stated in a CBS program that over 75% of false convictions are due to a mistaken identification by an eyewitness.

On television, the interrogation room is an intimidating small room where the suspect is often subjected to taunting and physical abuse by police officers. Unfortunately, this abuse of power is not purely fiction, throughout the country people are still driven to self-incrimination.

In Kennebunk, Maine, the names of more than 100 men have been made public in the case of the Zumba instructor who was allegedly running a brothel in her studio.