Prosecution Complex : : America's Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent / / Daniel S. Medwed.
American prosecutors are asked to play two roles within the criminal justice system: they are supposed to be ministers of justice whose only goals are to ensure fair trials, whatever the outcomes of those trials might be-and they are also advocates of the government whose success rates are measured...
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Medwed, Daniel S., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Prosecution Complex : America's Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent / Daniel S. Medwed. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. Fair Play? -- 1 Charging Ahead -- 2 In the Interest of Full Disclosure -- 3 Plea Bargaining Pitfalls -- PART II. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt? -- 4 Preparation and Examination of Witnesses -- 5 Test Tubes on Trial -- 6 Closing the Door on Innocence -- PART III. The Fallacy of Finality -- 7 Prosecutorial Resistance to Post-Conviction Claims of Innocence -- 8 A Closer Look -- 9 In Denial -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star American prosecutors are asked to play two roles within the criminal justice system: they are supposed to be ministers of justice whose only goals are to ensure fair trials, whatever the outcomes of those trials might be-and they are also advocates of the government whose success rates are measured by how many convictions they get. Because of this second role, sometimes prosecutors suppress evidence in order to establish a defendant’s guilt and safeguard that conviction over time.Daniel S. Medwed, a nationally-recognized authority on wrongful convictions, has wrestled with these issues for nearly fifteen years, ever since he accepted a job as a public defender with the Legal Aid Society of New York City. Combining his hands-on experience in the courtroom and his role as a teacher and scholar in the classroom, Medwed shows how prosecutors are told to lock up criminals and protect the rights of defendants. This double role creates an institutional “prosecution complex” that animates how district attorneys’ offices treat potentially innocent defendants at all stages of the process-and that can cause prosecutors to aid in the conviction of the innocent. Ultimately, Prosecution Complex is not intended to portray prosecutors as rogue officials indifferent to the conviction of the innocent, but rather to explain why, while most prosecutors aim to do justice, only some hit that target consistently. 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 29. Jun 2022) Judicial error United States. Prosecutorial misconduct United States. LAW / Criminal Law / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110706444 print 9780814796245 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814796245.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814764350 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814764350/original |
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