Convicting the innocent [electronic resource] : where criminal prosecutions go wrong / Brandon L. Garrett.
Garrett, Brandon.
2011
KF9756 .G37 2011eb
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Title Convicting the innocent [electronic resource] : where criminal prosecutions go wrong / Brandon L. Garrett.
Author Garrett, Brandon.
ISBN 978067406098 electronic book
9780674058705
Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (367 p.) : ill.
Call Number KF9756 .G37 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 345.73/064
Summary DNA exonerations have shattered confidence in the criminal justice system by exposing how often we have convicted the innocent and let the guilty walk free. In this unsettling in-depth analysis, Brandon Garrett examines what went wrong in the cases of the first 250 wrongfully convicted people to be exonerated by DNA testing. Based on trial transcripts, Garrett's investigation reveals larger patterns of incompetence, abuse, and error. Evidence corrupted by suggestive eyewitness procedures, coercive interrogations, unsound and unreliable forensics, shoddy investigative practices, cognitive bias, and poor lawyering illustrates the weaknesses built into our current criminal justice system. Garrett proposes practical reforms that rely more on documented, recorded, and audited evidence, and less on fallible human memory. Few crimes committed in the United States involve biological evidence that can be DNA-tested. How many unjust convictions are there that we will never discover? Convicting the Innocent makes a powerful case for systemic reforms to improve the accuracy of all criminal cases.--From publisher description.
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Introduction
Contaminated confessions
Eyewitness misidentifications
Flawed forensics
Trial by liar
Innocence on trial
Judging innocence
Exoneration
Reforming the criminal justice system.

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