The Plea of Innocence : : Restoring Truth to the American Justice System /

The Plea of Innocence : : Restoring Truth to the American Justice System / / Tim Bakken.

Proposes groundbreaking, fundamental reform for the adversarial legal system to keep innocent people from going to prison We rely on the adversarial legal system to hold offenders accountable, ensure everyone is playing by the same rules, and keep our streets safe. Unfortunately, a grave condition l...

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Bakken, Tim,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Importance of Facts
  • Part I. Why Innocent People Are Convicted
  • 1 Human Error
  • 2 Devaluation of Freedom
  • 3 Defense of Falsity
  • 4 Emergence and Glory of Adversarial Combat
  • 5 Alone with No Evidence
  • Part II A Deficient Adversarial System
  • 6 Convictions without Truth
  • 7 The Lost Dialectic
  • 8 Trials without Facts
  • 9 Procedures over Evidence
  • Part III Obtaining Correct Verdicts
  • 10 Neutral Investigations
  • 11. A New Procedure: The Search for Truth
  • Conclusion: The Plea of Innocence
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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