On March 24, 2008, the New York times published an article about the difficulties inherent in calculating the wrongful conviction rate in the United States.  As the article points out, there is no accepted methodology for calculating the rate at which defendants have been wrongfully convicted.  Those who attempt to make such a calculation differ widely in their results.  On one side of the spectrum is Justice Scalia, who once divided the number of exonerated prisoners by the total of all felony convictions and reached a wrongful conviction rate of .027 percent.  On the other side are those who look at…