Convicting the Innocent Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong

Name: Convicting the Innocent Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong
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ISBN: 9780674066113

ISBN-10: 0674066111

ISBN-13: 9780674066113

Edition: 2011

Authors: Brandon L. Garrett

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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…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Brandon L. Garrett is Roy L. and Rosamond Woodruff Morgan Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.




Introduction



Contaminated Confessions



Eyewitness Misidentifications



Flawed Forensics



Trial by Liar



Innocence on Trial



Judging Innocence



Exoneration



Reforming the Criminal Justice System


Appendix


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index