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The University of Michigan Law School and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law have compiled an extensive registry of exonerations, including more than 2,000 people falsely convicted of serious crimes over the past two decades, according to an Associated Press article appearing on WashingtonPost.com. The 873 exonerated defendants whose cases had the most detailed evidence spent a combined total of more than 10,000 years in prison, or an average of 11 years each. While strides are being made in bringing justice to the wrongfully convicted, University of Michigan law professor Samuel Gross said, “We know there are many more we haven’t found.”