{"id":50,"date":"2025-08-01T05:03:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/?p=50"},"modified":"2025-08-01T05:03:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T05:03:56","slug":"almost-900-wrongful-convictions-is-shocking-new-zealand-cops-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"ALMOST 900 WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS IS SHOCKING NEW ZEALAND &#8211; COPS TO BLAME?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almost 900 people have had their convictions quashed or sent back to court in the past decade, including two men who say their fight for compensation has almost ruined them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sobering statistics &#8211; that New Zealand\u2019s justice system has got it wrong 893 times &#8211; has one defence lawyer calling for a complete overhaul of the system and come as a further 340 people have taken their cases to the Criminal Cases Review Commission to investigate whether they suffered a miscarriage of justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far the Commission, Te K\u0101hui T\u0101tari Ture, set up in 2020 and replacing the Royal Prerogative of Mercy, has been inundated with applications for help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Late last year the first case was sent to the Court of Appeal in which a teenage boy was mistakenly imprisoned because the court at the time had an incorrect birth date that made him appear older.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/almost-1000-wrongful-convictions-in-10-years-a-wrecking-ball-in-peoples-lives\/ME7IBXXVUNCMJDGLALCDV26YIM\/\">https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/almost-1000-wrongful-convictions-in-10-years-a-wrecking-ball-in-peoples-lives\/ME7IBXXVUNCMJDGLALCDV26YIM\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/120123CONVICTIONS2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/120123CONVICTIONS2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/120123CONVICTIONS2-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 900 people have had their convictions quashed or sent back to court in the past decade, including two men&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzorator.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}