Based on the evidence in Just Mercy, why are wrongful convictions and illegal trials involving young children very common?

Young
children are considered very unreliable witnesses. Their memories are not fully developed and
they are more vulnerable to the emotional pressures associated with interrogation. The memories
they do have are easily manipulated by prosecutors' lines of questioning, particularly questions
that are suggestive and lean toward certain answers. These observations are supported by
contemporary psychologists and lawyers. This is just to give you perspective on children as
witnesses (this will become relevant in a few paragraphs).

: A Story of Justice and Redemption explores the opposite
perspective in which juveniles are wrongfully persecuted.offers an authoritative perspective as
a lawyer. In the 1980s and 1990s, he...