Prosecution Complex : : America's Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent /

Prosecution Complex : : America's Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent / / Daniel S. Medwed.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Medwed, Daniel S.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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