Introduction
Wrongful conviction is when innocent people are wrongly sentence to jail time. Here are some reasons which play a role in wrongful convictions eyewitness misidentification, false confessions, government misconduct, misapplication of forensic science, and inadequate defense. According to the website innocenceproject.org by the innocence project in Angel Gonzalez case the reasons were eyewitness misidentification and false confession.
Cause
In May, 10, 1994 a woman was kidnapped by two men and rapped down the block in a back yard. Angel Gonzalez which had been in the area at the time was stopped by police because his car matched the description of the car used for the crime (he didn’t match the description). At the time he spoke
