Rob Warden Quotations

It's spreading nationally. That, I think, is George Ryan's legacy. This is where it started and that's his contribution.

Even 25 years ago, we might not have believed it. We knew there were crazy people, people who for some strange reason might confess to a crime he or she did not commit, and we understood torture, but we didn't understand the psychological factors that would make it possible.

In capital murder cases, snitches are the No. 1 factor, being present in 45 percent of wrongful convictions identified since 1976. When I define snitch, by the way, I don't mean just anybody who's in jail, but anybody who has an incentive to testify a certain way.