Due Process

Facts/ Details:

1. Kevin Rojas was mistaken by an eyewitness to a murder, for being the murderer, because of a similar colored sweatshirt.
2. A mother-daughter lawyer team decided to help Kevin in his situation, because they could see that the charges had a lack of DNA evidence.
3. Prof. Lesley Risinger and her mother proved Kevin Rojas not guilty, without using DNA evidence.
4. Barry Scheck works as a lawyer to help prove convicted peoples innocent. The project is called Innocence Project.
5. Barry Scheck has had over 270 people who were innocent freed.
6. There was a movie adaption of one of his cases called Conviction, which was based on his case involving Kenneth Water's conviction
7. Barry Scheck find the proof for his clients through mainly DNA.
8. Quincy Spruell was wrongly convicted of murder and served 24 years in jail, till he was proven innocent.
9. Quincy Spruell confessed to the wrong crime and was never given the chance to explain the wrongdoing of the police.
10. NJ defense attorney thought that Quincy was wrongly accused.

Questions:

1. If you do not commit a crime, and you a accused of being guilty, can you have the same hearing again proving you are not guilty, or would that be double jeopardy?
2. Can you be sentenced, then proven innocent, then proven guilty again on the same crime/ evidence?
3. Is there a way for the American Judicial system to lessen the amount of innocent people that get convicted?
4. Has there been any cases where a person has been proven innocent, then on a later date said they were guilty?
5. How many people in total have been proven innocent after their convictions?