//Misconduct by government officials is a factor in 54% of wrongful convictions, study finds

Misconduct by government officials is a factor in 54% of wrongful convictions, study finds

Ronnie Long walked out of a North Carolina prison late last month after serving 44 years for a crime he had long said he didn’t commit.The 64-year-old Black man was convicted in 1976 of raping a white woman and burglary. But that conviction was recently vacated by a federal judge, who cited a “troubling and striking pattern of deliberate police suppression of material evidence,” including