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The kings of the courtroom

机译：法庭之王

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Cameron todd willingham was accused of murdering his daughters in 1991 by setting fire to the family house. The main evidence against him was a forensic report on the fire, later shown to be bunk, and the testimony of a jailhouse informant who claimed to have heard him confess. He was executed in 2004. The snitch who sent him to his death had been told that robbery charges pending against him would be reduced to a lesser offence if he co-operated. After the trial the prosecutor denied that any such deal had been struck, but a handwritten note discovered last year by the Innocence Project, a pressure group, suggests otherwise. In taped interviews, extracts of which were published by the Washington Post, the informant said he lied in court in return for efforts by the prosecutor to secure a reduced sentence and-amazingly-financial support from a local rancher. A study by Northwestern University Law School's Centre on Wrongful Convictions found that 46% of documented wrongful capital convictions between 1973 and 2004 could be traced to false testimony by snitches-making them the leading cause of wrongful convictions in death-penalty cases. The Innocence Project keeps a database of Americans convicted of serious crimes but then exonerated by dna evidence. Of the 318 it lists, 57 involved infor-mants-and 30 of the convicted had entered a guilty plea.
机译：卡梅伦·托德·威灵厄姆（Cameron Todd Willingham）被指控在1991年放火烧毁家庭住宅，谋杀了他的女儿。反对他的主要证据是关于火灾的法医报告，后来证明是双层的，还有一个自称听过他供词的监狱线人的证词。他于2004年被处决。告密者将他送去致死，如果他与他合作，抢劫罪将被减为轻罪。庭审后，检察官否认达成了任何此类交易，但压力团体无罪计划去年发现的手写便条则相反。线人在《华盛顿邮报》发表的录音采访中说，他在法庭上撒谎，以换取检察官为减少本地牧场主的刑期和提供惊人财政支持所做的努力。西北大学法学院错误定罪中心的一项研究发现，在1973年至2004年之间，有记录的46％的错误资本定罪可以通过卑鄙的手段追溯到虚假证词，从而使它们成为死刑案件中错误定罪的主要原因。无罪专案保留了一个被判犯有严重罪行但被dna证据免除的美国人的数据库。它列出的318个名单中，有57个涉及被告人，其中30个被定罪的人已认罪。

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    《The economist》 |2014年第8907期|41-42|共2页
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