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Cato Video • December 22, 2015 

# Does the American Criminal Justice System Need an Overhaul? 

View the full event here: [https://​www​.cato​.org/​e​v​e​n​t​s​/​d​o​e​s​-​a​m​e​r​i​c​a​n​-​c​r​i​m​i​n​a​l​-​j​u​s​t​i​c​e​-​s​y​s​t​e​m​-​n​e​e​d​-​o​v​e​rhaul](https://www.cato.org/events/does-american-criminal-justice-system-need-overhaul)

Judge Alex Kozinski recently published a scathing critique of the American criminal justice system in an article titled “Criminal Law 2.0.” According to Judge Kozinski, we should be alarmed by the number of people who have been exonerated by DNA testing. That testing has exposed a system that is rife with false confessions, unreliable eyewitnesses, junk forensics, and misbehaving prosecutors, among other problems.

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##### Hon. Alex Kozinski