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Jim Petro

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Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Politics

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THE SON OF A BELOVED JUSTICE OF THE PEACE in Brooklyn, Ohio, Jim Petro was raised in a family that considered public service a noble calling. Throughout his 37-year career as an attorney and 28-year career as an elected public office holder, Jim has been publicly committed to strong law-and-order platforms. As Ohio Auditor of State, he and his team cleaned up a corrupt office and performed audits that led to the criminal conviction of an unprecedented 110 public officials in Ohio. His tenure as Attorney General was marked by a nation-leading effort to fully utilize DNA technology to solve crimes. But Jim and his wife Nancy could not ignore the nation's rash of DNA-proven exonerations, especially when an uncorrected wrongful murder/rape conv ...more

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“once convicted, a prisoner’s opportunity to prove his or her innocence is extremely remote and requires an army of pro bono lawyers and tenacious family members willing to work for years at great expense without any guarantee of restoring justice.”
― Jim Petro, False Justice: Eight Myths that Convict the Innocent
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“Q. How many convicts in American prisons today are totally innocent of the crime? A. Only God knows.”
― Jim Petro, False Justice: Eight Myths that Convict the Innocent
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“if the system is 99 percent accurate, 22,284 innocent persons are in prison. If the system is 99.9 percent accurate, that is still 2,228 innocent people in prison.”
― Jim Petro, False Justice: Eight Myths that Convict the Innocent
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