17. Helped write/pass a law both sides supported protecting people from false confessions to a crime
This law required all police interrogations to be filmed, the law was in response to Illinois holding the record for the most people convicted of murder and sentenced to death (or maybe just found guilty?) and later set free when new DNA evidence found they couldn't have done it.
The problem in most, if not all of those cases was cops pressured/tricked those people into confessing to doing the crime, which got the people convicted.
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