Innocence, it turns out, is a complex concept. Yet the Innocence Movement has drawn power
from the simplicity of the wrong-person story of innocence, as told most effectively by the
DNA cases. The purity of that story continues to have power, but that story alone cannot
sustain the Innocence Movement. It is too narrow. It fails to accommodate the vast majority of
innocent people in our justice system. It fails to embrace innocence in its full complexity....[I]
n the end, for virtually all purposes, innocence must be understood under the objective rules …