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Innocent: Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases

By Scott Christianson

Book information

Publisher
New York University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
9780814790212
DOI
10.18574/nyu/9780814790212.001.0001
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
56 MB (58768405 bytes)
Pages
\209
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 08:09:16

Description

A look at the prisioners who are unfairly imprisioned, written by a journalist.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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