I feel that we wanted to help exonerate the innocent, but we also wanted to help convict the guilty.
Patrick Leahy: “I feel that we wanted to help exonerate the innocent, but we also wanted to help convict the guilty.”
On the recordJuly 17, 2012
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Leahy emphasizes the dual goals of forensic science reform.
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