Ask the Lawyer: Is the judicial system broken?

Q: If a person is wrongfully convicted (and we all know quite a few have been), doesn’t that indicate the judicial system is broken?
-A.R., Torrance
Ron Sokol
A: One wrongful conviction is one too many. Today we believe we have nearly fool-proof tools to prevent wrongful convictions, such as DNA sampling.  We feel that mistakes “back then” were often because of insufficient devices and less scientific advances.
We also insist that people were more prejudiced in t