Of the exonerations in 2016, 45 percent occurred in cases where defendants had pled guilty even though they were innocent.
Exoneration is the action of officially absolving someone from blame; vindication.
According to the National Registry of exoneration, by February 6, 2020, the Registry has 2,551 known exonerations in the United States since 1989. The National Registry does not include more than 1,800 defendants cleared in 15 large-scale police scandals that came to light between 1989 and March 7, 2017, in which officers systematically framed innocent defendants.
Therefore, the answer is 45%.
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