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Brandon L. Garrett Convicting the Innocent (Paperback) (US IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Convicting the Innocent
- Title
- Convicting the Innocent
- EAN
- 9780674066113
- ISBN
- 9780674066113
- Release Year
- 2012
- Release Date
- 03/09/2012
- Item Length
- 156mm
- Subtitle
- Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong
- ISBN-10
- 0674066111
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Genre
- Society & Culture
- Topic
- Law & Politics
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Subject Area
- Criminal Law
- Publication Name
- Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong
- Item Height
- 235 mm
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Subject
- Law, Forensics
- Item Width
- 156 mm
- Number of Pages
- 376 Pages
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On January 20, 1984, Earl Washington?defended for all of forty minutes by a lawyer who had never tried a death penalty case?was found guilty of rape and murder in the state of Virginia and sentenced to death. After nine years on death row, DNA testing cast doubt on his conviction and saved his life. However, he spent another eight years in prison before more sophisticated DNA technology proved his innocence and convicted the guilty man. 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 into the causes of wrongful convictions 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. Very few crimes committed in the United States involve biological evidence that can be tested using DNA. 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.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-13
9780674066113
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Number of Pages
376 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong
Publication Year
2012
Subject
Law, Forensics
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Criminal Law
Format
Paperback
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Item Height
235 mm
Item Width
156 mm
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United States
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