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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