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These units, you say not so fast? it s a beautiful story. i am happy for shamel capers. i have been involved in multiple exonerations and prison releases and i am overjoyed for him and his family. the problem is we have an eps epidemic of wrongful convictions, 5% of convictions are of the wrong person with 2 million people in prison, that s 100,000 people. to have an isolated incident like that is a wonderful story but we need to look at all the people whose cases we are never hearing about. the problem with conviction integrity units is it s the same office that actually contributed to the wrongful conviction that we are asking to review itself. while i applaud the queens d.a. melinda catz, a tremendous job in this case and many others, the problem is that the cius around the country, most are doing absolutely nothing. they set up an office. there are 97 of them. 46 hasn t had a single ....