Hamilton County Prosecutor Connie Pillich announced Friday that her office is creating a new conviction integrity unit (CIU).
The unit, a campaign promise of Pillich’s, will review cases where defendants may have been wrongfully convicted or experienced sentencing inequities.
“Let’s keep in mind that we’re human. We make mistakes. We’re not infallible, and if there were mistakes made, we should do what we can to correct those errors,” Pillich said during a sit-down interview Friday. “Because the last thing I want to do is put an innocent person in jail for a crime they did not commit.”…