1. A false confession (Jesse's)

2. False accusations (girls at softball game; Vicki Hutcheson and Aaron Hutcheson)

3. Testimony from "a jailhouse snitch"

4. Mistaken initial assumptions

5. Tunnel vision (ignoring evidence)

6. "Confirmatory thinking" instead of "exploratory thinking"

7. Incompetence in investigation

8. Police misconduct

9. Prosecution misconduct

10. Unhelpful rulings (judicial bias?)

11. Defense mistakes

12. A bad jury?


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