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Flawed Convictions
Author | : Deborah Tuerkheimer |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780190233617 |
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This book surveys the scientific, cultural, and legal history of Shaken Baby Syndrome from inception to formal dissolution. It exposes extraordinary failings in the criminal justice system's treatment of what is, in essence, a medical diagnosis of murder.--Publisher's description.
Convicting the Innocent
Author | : Brandon L. Garrett |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2011-08-04 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780674060982 |
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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.
Good Kids Bad City
Author | : Kyle Swenson |
Publsiher | : Picador |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019-02-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781250120243 |
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From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids, Bad City is the true story of the longest wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political history of Cleveland, the city that convicted them. In the early 1970s, three African-American men—Wiley Bridgeman, Kwame Ajamu, and Rickey Jackson—were accused and convicted of the brutal robbery and murder of a man outside of a convenience store in Cleveland, Ohio. The prosecution’s case, which resulted in a combined 106 years in prison for the three men, rested on the more-than-questionable testimony of a pre-teen, Ed Vernon. The actual murderer was never found. Almost four decades later, Vernon recanted his testimony, and Wiley, Kwame, and Rickey were released. But while their exoneration may have ended one of American history’s most disgraceful miscarriages of justice, the corruption and decay of the city responsible for their imprisonment remain on trial. Interweaving the dramatic details of the case with Cleveland’s history—one that, to this day, is fraught with systemic discrimination and racial tension—Swenson reveals how this outrage occurred and why. Good Kids, Bad City is a work of astonishing empathy and insight: an immersive exploration of race in America, the struggling Midwest, and how lost lives can be recovered.
Overturning Wrongful Convictions
Author | : Elizabeth A. Murray |
Publsiher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2015-03-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781467763073 |
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Imagine being wrongfully convicted of a crime and spending years behind bars. Since 1989 more than 1,400 Americans who experienced this injustice have been exonerated. Readers will examine real accounts and learn about organizations dedicated to righting these wrongs.
The Psychology and Sociology of Wrongful Convictions
Author | : Wendy J Koen,C. Michael Bowers |
Publsiher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2018-06-26 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780128027028 |
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Wrongful convictions are the result of faulty or false scientific evidence in 50% of the cases. Defense counsel is often at a great disadvantage in defending against evidence based on science. Illusory Evidence: The Psychology and Sociology of Wrongful Convictions is written for the non-scientist, to make complicated scientific information clear and concise enough for attorneys and judges to master. This is obtained by providing case studies to simplify issues in forensic psychology for the legal professional. Increases the courts’ knowledge about areas of psychology that have been debunked, have advanced, or have been refined by the scientific community Covers issues in psychological forensics, namely: Profiling, Psychological Defenses, Mitigation, Eyewitness Testimony/Identification, Child Testimony, Repressed Memories, False Confessions and Moral Panic Trains prosecuting attorneys about the present state of the forensic psychology, to avoid relying only on legal precedent and will not present flawed science to the court Provides defense attorneys the knowledge necessary to competently defend where forensic psychology plays a part in a prosecution Arms innocence projects and appellate attorneys with the latest information to challenge convictions Uses case studies to simplify issues in forensic psychology for the legal professional
Wrongful Convictions and the DNA Revolution
Author | : Daniel S. Medwed |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2017-03-30 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781107129962 |
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This book examines the lessons learned from twenty-five years of using DNA to free innocent prisoners and identifies lingering challenges.
In Spite of Innocence
Author | : Michael L. Radelet,Hugo Adam Bedau,Constance E. Putnam |
Publsiher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1555531970 |
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The stories of some 400 innocent Americans who were falsely convicted of capital crimes.
Wrongful Conviction in Canadian Law
Author | : Gary Botting |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 673 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Criminal justice, Administration of |
ISBN | : 0433451238 |
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"Miscarriages of justice in wrongful conviction happen more often than the criminal court system would like to admit. Awareness of the causes can reduce the overall potential for miscarriage of justice. These causes include: Prosecutorial ?tunnel vision?, Failure to make full disclosure, Suborned or concocted evidence, Eyewitness misidentification, False confessions, Reliance on in-custody informers, Incompetent ?experts?, Flawed legal representation. Wrongful Conviction in Canadian Law is the first book to review and analyze recommendations of Commissions of Inquiry into wrongful convictions. Comparative analyses reveal which recommendations have been implemented as policy, passed into legislation, or endorsed by the courts. You?ll learn how the authorities could have made ? or could have avoided ? such major errors." --Publisher.