Convicting the Innocent : : Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong / / Brandon Garrett.
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....
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011 |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 18 graphs |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
id |
9780674060982 |
---|---|
ctrlnum |
(DE-B1597)178230 (OCoLC)727949876 |
collection |
bib_alma |
record_format |
marc |
spelling |
Garrett, Brandon, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Convicting the Innocent : Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong / Brandon Garrett. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (376 p.) : 18 graphs text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Contaminated Confessions -- Chapter 3. Eyewitness Misidentifications -- Chapter 4. Flawed Forensics -- Chapter 5. Trial by Liar -- Chapter 6. Innocence on Trial -- Chapter 7. Judging Innocence -- Chapter 8. Exoneration -- Chapter 9. Reforming the Criminal Justice System -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Evidence, Criminal United States. Judicial error United States. Post-conviction remedies United States. ART / History / Renaissance. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011 9783110261189 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LANGUAGES TITLES 2011 9783110261233 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET RECHTSWISSENSCHAFTEN 2011 9783110261264 ZDB-23-DGC Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) 9783110756067 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 print 9780674058705 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674060982 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674060982 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674060982.jpg |
language |
English |
format |
eBook |
author |
Garrett, Brandon, Garrett, Brandon, |
spellingShingle |
Garrett, Brandon, Garrett, Brandon, Convicting the Innocent : Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Contaminated Confessions -- Chapter 3. Eyewitness Misidentifications -- Chapter 4. Flawed Forensics -- Chapter 5. Trial by Liar -- Chapter 6. Innocence on Trial -- Chapter 7. Judging Innocence -- Chapter 8. Exoneration -- Chapter 9. Reforming the Criminal Justice System -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
author_facet |
Garrett, Brandon, Garrett, Brandon, |
author_variant |
b g bg b g bg |
author_role |
VerfasserIn VerfasserIn |
author_sort |
Garrett, Brandon, |
title |
Convicting the Innocent : Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong / |
title_sub |
Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong / |
title_full |
Convicting the Innocent : Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong / Brandon Garrett. |
title_fullStr |
Convicting the Innocent : Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong / Brandon Garrett. |
title_full_unstemmed |
Convicting the Innocent : Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong / Brandon Garrett. |
title_auth |
Convicting the Innocent : Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong / |
title_alt |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Contaminated Confessions -- Chapter 3. Eyewitness Misidentifications -- Chapter 4. Flawed Forensics -- Chapter 5. Trial by Liar -- Chapter 6. Innocence on Trial -- Chapter 7. Judging Innocence -- Chapter 8. Exoneration -- Chapter 9. Reforming the Criminal Justice System -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
title_new |
Convicting the Innocent : |
title_sort |
convicting the innocent : where criminal prosecutions go wrong / |
publisher |
Harvard University Press, |
publishDate |
2011 |
physical |
1 online resource (376 p.) : 18 graphs Issued also in print. |
contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Contaminated Confessions -- Chapter 3. Eyewitness Misidentifications -- Chapter 4. Flawed Forensics -- Chapter 5. Trial by Liar -- Chapter 6. Innocence on Trial -- Chapter 7. Judging Innocence -- Chapter 8. Exoneration -- Chapter 9. Reforming the Criminal Justice System -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
isbn |
9780674060982 9783110261189 9783110261233 9783110261264 9783110756067 9783110442205 9780674058705 |
callnumber-first |
K - Law |
callnumber-subject |
KF - United States |
callnumber-label |
KF9756 |
callnumber-sort |
KF 49756 G37 42012 |
geographic_facet |
United States. |
url |
https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674060982 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674060982 https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674060982.jpg |
illustrated |
Not Illustrated |
dewey-hundreds |
300 - Social sciences |
dewey-tens |
340 - Law |
dewey-ones |
345 - Criminal law |
dewey-full |
345.73064 |
dewey-sort |
3345.73064 |
dewey-raw |
345.73064 |
dewey-search |
345.73064 |
doi_str_mv |
10.4159/harvard.9780674060982 |
oclc_num |
727949876 |
work_keys_str_mv |
AT garrettbrandon convictingtheinnocentwherecriminalprosecutionsgowrong |
status_str |
n |
ids_txt_mv |
(DE-B1597)178230 (OCoLC)727949876 |
carrierType_str_mv |
cr |
hierarchy_parent_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LANGUAGES TITLES 2011 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET RECHTSWISSENSCHAFTEN 2011 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
is_hierarchy_title |
Convicting the Innocent : Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong / |
container_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011 |
_version_ |
1770176210519719936 |
fullrecord |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>05358nam a22008295i 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">9780674060982</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-B1597</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20210830012106.0</controlfield><controlfield tag="006">m|||||o||d||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr || ||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">210830t20112011mau fo d z eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)979683592</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9780674060982</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="024" ind1="7" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">10.4159/harvard.9780674060982</subfield><subfield code="2">doi</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-B1597)178230</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)727949876</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="b">eng</subfield><subfield code="c">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="044" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">mau</subfield><subfield code="c">US-MA</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="050" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">KF9756</subfield><subfield code="b">.G37 2012</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="072" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">ART015080</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">345.73064</subfield><subfield code="2">23</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Garrett, Brandon, </subfield><subfield code="e">author.</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield><subfield code="4">http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Convicting the Innocent :</subfield><subfield code="b">Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong /</subfield><subfield code="c">Brandon Garrett.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Cambridge, MA : </subfield><subfield code="b">Harvard University Press, </subfield><subfield code="c">[2011]</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">©2011</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1 online resource (376 p.) :</subfield><subfield code="b">18 graphs</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text</subfield><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">computer</subfield><subfield code="b">c</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">online resource</subfield><subfield code="b">cr</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="347" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text file</subfield><subfield code="b">PDF</subfield><subfield code="2">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="t">Frontmatter -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Contents -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 1. Introduction -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 2. Contaminated Confessions -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 3. Eyewitness Misidentifications -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 4. Flawed Forensics -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 5. Trial by Liar -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 6. Innocence on Trial -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 7. Judging Innocence -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 8. Exoneration -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 9. Reforming the Criminal Justice System -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Appendix -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Notes -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Acknowledgments -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Index</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="506" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">restricted access</subfield><subfield code="u">http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec</subfield><subfield code="f">online access with authorization</subfield><subfield code="2">star</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">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.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="530" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Issued also in print.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="538" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="546" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">In English.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="588" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Evidence, Criminal</subfield><subfield code="z">United States.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Judicial error</subfield><subfield code="z">United States.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Post-conviction remedies</subfield><subfield code="z">United States.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">ART / History / Renaissance.</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110261189</subfield><subfield code="o">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LANGUAGES TITLES 2011</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110261233</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">E-BOOK PAKET RECHTSWISSENSCHAFTEN 2011</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110261264</subfield><subfield code="o">ZDB-23-DGC</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110756067</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110442205</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="776" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="c">print</subfield><subfield code="z">9780674058705</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674060982</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674060982</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="3">Cover</subfield><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674060982.jpg</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-026123-3 E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LANGUAGES TITLES 2011</subfield><subfield code="b">2011</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-044220-5 Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013</subfield><subfield code="c">2000</subfield><subfield code="d">2013</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-075606-7 HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)</subfield><subfield code="b">2013</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_BACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_CL_MUAR</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ECL_MUAR</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EEBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ESSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_PPALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_SSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_STMALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">GBV-deGruyter-alles</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA11SSHE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA12STME</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA13ENGE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA17SSHEE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA5EBK</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">ZDB-23-DGC</subfield><subfield code="b">2011</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="b">2011</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |