By Bay City News.
California moves to remove barriers to overturning wrongful convictions after Gov. Gavin Newsom passed legislation last week that seeks to simplify the exemption process.
Newsom signed Senate Bill 97, proposed by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, which removes a number of important barriers to overturning wrongful convictions, Wiener's office announced Saturday.
The Golden State leads the nation in exonerations of wrongfully convicted people, overturning more than 200 convictions between 1989 and 2013. However, the process to overturn a wrongful conviction in the state remains complex and unnecessarily arduous, according to