Prosecution complex [electronic resource] : America's race to convict and its impact on the innocent / Daniel S. Medwed.
Medwed, Daniel S.
2012
KF9640 .M43 2012eb
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Title Prosecution complex [electronic resource] : America's race to convict and its impact on the innocent / Daniel S. Medwed.
Author Medwed, Daniel S.
ISBN 9780814764350 (electronic bk.)
9780814796245
Imprint New York : New York University Press, c2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 229 p.)
Call Number KF9640 .M43 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 345.73/05
Summary American prosecutors are asked to play two roles within the criminal justice system: they are supposed to be ministers of justice whose only goals are to ensure fair trials, whatever the outcomes of those trials might be--and they are also advocates of the government whose success rates are measured by how many convictions they get. Because of this second role, sometimes prosecutors suppress evidence in order to establish a defendant's guilt and safeguard that conviction over time. Daniel S. Medwed, a recognized authority on wrongful convictions, has wrestled with these issues for nearly fifte[en years.]
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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A closer look : prosecutors and post-conviction DNA testing
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