Innocent : : Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases / / Scott Christianson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Christianson, Scott,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1 Presumed Guilty --; 2 Mistaken IdentiFcation --; 3 Eyewitness Perjury --; 4 Ineffective Counsel --; 5 False Confessions --; 6 Police Misconduct --; 7 Fabrication of Evidence --; 8 Prosecutorial Misconduct --; 9 Forensics --; 10 Selected Wrongful Conviction Cases --; Appendix --; Selected References --; Resources --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814790212; 9783110706444
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814790212.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Scott Christianson.

Innocent graphically documents forty-two recent criminal cases to find evidence of shocking miscarriages of justice, especially in murder cases. Based upon interviews with more than 200 people and reviews of hundreds internal case files, court records, smoking-gun memoranda, and other documents, Scott Christianson gets inside the legal cases, revealing the mistakes, abuses, and underlying factors that led to miscarriages of justice, while also describing how determined prisoners, post-conviction attorneys, advocates, and journalists struggle against tremendous odds to try to win their exonerations.The result is a powerful work that recounts the human costs of a criminal justice system gone awry, and shows us how wrongful convictions can-and do-happen everywhere.