Samuel R. Gross

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Samuel Raymond Gross (born 1946) is an American lawyer and the Thomas and Mabel Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. Gross is best known for his work in false convictions and exonerations, notably the Larry Griffin death penalty case.

Gross is the editor of the National Registry of Exonerations project.^[1]

Samuel Gross has been leading a team of lawyers in statistics and in law which determined the likely number of unjust convictions of prisoners on death row. The study determined that at least 4% of people on death row were and are innocent. The research was peer reviewed with the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences which later published it. Gross has stated that he firmly believes some innocent people have been executed.^[2]