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[email protected]. Constructing Guilt, Obstructing Truth: How the Spectacle of Wrongful Conviction Reveals and Magnifies Fundamental Flaws in the Criminal Justice System Senior Project Submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College by Fiona Hession Annandale-on-Hudson, New York May 2020 1 2 Acknowledgements An enormous thank you… To my board members as well the various faculty who have supported me through all of this––to Peter, my senior project advisor: I am so grateful for your ideas and excitement about this project, for your encouragement for me to expand, explore, think, and learn about a subject I cared about deeply, and for your reassurance and patience with me when I struggled.