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9780451209825

Actual Innocence : When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make It Right

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  • ISBN13:

    9780451209825

  • ISBN10:

    0451209826

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-12-02
  • Publisher: NAL Trade

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Summary

Here are the stories of innocent men and women-and the system that put them away under the guise of justice. Now updated with new information, Actual Innocencesheds light on "a system that tolerates lying prosecutors, slumbering defense attorneys and sloppy investigators" (Salt Lake Tribune)-revealing the shocking flaws that can derail the legal process and the ways that DNA testing has often shattered so-called solid evidence that condemned American citizens to death.

Author Biography

Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, once lawyers with the Bronx Legal Aid Society, co-founded The Innocence Project, which seeks post-conviction release through DNA testing. They are among the most prominent civil rights attorneys in the U.S.

Jim Dwyer is the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Daily News and author of several other books.

Table of Contents

Authors' Notep. xi
Introduction: Wrong Numbersp. xiii
An Innocence Projectp. 1
An Inventionp. 45
Seeing Thingsp. 53
False Confessionsp. 101
White Coat Fraudp. 138
Snitchp. 163
Junk Sciencep. 204
Broken Oathsp. 222
Sleeping Lawyersp. 237
Racep. 250
The Death of Innocentsp. 273
Starting Overp. 289
Lessonsp. 309
Reckonings: An Updatep. 329
A Short List of Reforms to Protect the Innocentp. 351
DNA Exonerations at a Glancep. 363
Sourcesp. 369
Acknowledgmentsp. 389
Indexp. 395
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