Investigating ongoing cases, however, serves to draw attention to current miscarriages of justice.
Improved and reliable data are crucial to ensure that stillbirths, induced abortions and miscarriages get relevant attention in health planning and policy.
But miscarriages followed, and his attention began to move elsewhere.
Despite tremendous focus on maternal and new-born care in the past decade in India, pregnancy losses including still birth, induced abortion and miscarriage have not received much attention.
Bridgette Gibbs says that, despite telling staff of her history of miscarriages, she received no medical attention in her two months of pregnancy at the Westchester County jail in New York.
Tribute albums, benefit concerts and books all came about with the intent of bringing attention to what the artists viewed as a miscarriage of justice.
For women beyond the twentieth week of pregnancy, any of the miscarriage symptoms above require immediate medical attention, as they may indicate premature delivery or fetal demise.
When this study was first published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr Mark A Klebanoff, of the National Institutes of Health, warned that the researchers may not have paid enough attention to other possible factors like chronic health problems, miscarriages or abortions.
His second appeal was abandoned, although the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Board had drawn attention to grounds for believing that there might have been a miscarriage of justice, in an 800-page report that has since exceptionally been published.
If we pay more attention to these routinely quashed convictions, we find a scale of miscarriage of justice to fundamentally challenges any notion that the current system of criminal justice is weighted too much in favour of the defendant.
