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62 Rutgers L. Rev. 887 (2009-2010)
Arresting Development: Convictions of Innocent Youth

handle is hein.journals/rutlr62 and id is 895 raw text is: ARRESTING DEVELOPMENT: CONVICTIONS OF INNOCENT YOUTH Joshua A. Tepfer, Laura H. Nirider, and Lynda M. Tricarico* PART I: WHY MIGHT YOUTH BE PARTICULARLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS? ................................ 891 PART II: METHODOLOGY ................. .................. 895 PART III: FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS ...................... ..... 899 Age . ............................................. 901 Race and Ethnicity ...................................... 902 Gender........................... ................ 903 Geographic Origin ............................. 903 Type of Crime ...................................... 903 Evidence Used to Convict: False Confessions ............... 904 Evidence Used to Convict: Unreliable Witness Statements.. 908 Figure 6: Type of False Statements Contributing to Conviction ........................................... 911 * Tepfer and Nirider are visiting assistant clinical professors and staff attorneys at the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, which is part of Northwestern University School of Law's Bluhm Legal Clinic. Tricarico is a 2010 graduate of Northwestern University School of Law. We are indebted to Dr. Emily West of the Innocence Project in New York City, who assembled a pool of adult DNA exoneree data so that we might compare the experiences of wrongfully convicted youth against those of wrongfully convicted adults. We also wish to thank Rob Warden and Dolores Kennedy of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law; Brandon Garrett of the University of Virginia; Samuel Gross of the University of Michigan; Matt Kelley and Rebecca Brown of the Innocence Project in New York; Keith Findley of the Wisconsin Innocence Project; Justin Brooks of the California Innocence Project; Kristin Wenstrom of the Innocence Project New Orleans; William C. Thompson of the University of California at Irvine; Daniel Satin of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project; and Amy Kennedy of the Northern California Innocence Project for sharing their data concerning wrongfully convicted youth. Several Northwestern University School of Law students also deserve thanks for their assistance, including Malorie Medellin (Class of 2011) and Lauren Hillemann (Class of 2012). The ideas and passion of all of our students and classmates, however, contributed to this project. We also thank Rawson Daniel for his technical assistance. Finally, we offer special gratitude to our colleague and mentor Steven A. Drizin, Legal Director of Northwestern University's Center on Wrongful Convictions and co- founder of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth. Without his career-long dedication to remedying wrongful convictions and reforming the juvenile justice system-and without his talent for infusing others with similar passion-this study would never have come into being. Any errors in this study are the faults of the authors alone. 887

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