Innocent : Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases / Scott Christianson.
Christianson, Scott, author.
2004
KF9756 .C49 2004
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Title
Innocent : Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases / Scott Christianson.
Author
Christianson, Scott, author.
ISBN
9780814790212
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814790212.001.0001
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2004]
Copyright
©2004
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814790212.001.0001 doi
Call Number
KF9756 .C49 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification
345.73/05
Summary
Innocent graphically documents forty-two recent criminal cases to find evidence of shocking miscarriages of justice, especially in murder cases. Based upon interviews with more than 200 people and reviews of hundreds internal case files, court records, smoking-gun memoranda, and other documents, Scott Christianson gets inside the legal cases, revealing the mistakes, abuses, and underlying factors that led to miscarriages of justice, while also describing how determined prisoners, post-conviction attorneys, advocates, and journalists struggle against tremendous odds to try to win their exonerations.The result is a powerful work that recounts the human costs of a criminal justice system gone awry, and shows us how wrongful convictions can-and do-happen everywhere.
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New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Presumed Guilty
2 Mistaken IdentiFcation
3 Eyewitness Perjury
4 Ineffective Counsel
5 False Confessions
6 Police Misconduct
7 Fabrication of Evidence
8 Prosecutorial Misconduct
9 Forensics
10 Selected Wrongful Conviction Cases
Appendix
Selected References
Resources
About the Author

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