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....
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 18 graphs |
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Table of 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