Convicting the Innocent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Convicting the Innocent write by Brandon L. Garrett. This book was released on 2011-08-04. Convicting the Innocent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. However, he spent another eight years in prison before more sophisticated DNA technology proved his innocence and convicted the guilty man. DNA exonerations have shattered confidence in the criminal justice system by exposing how often we have convicted the innocent and let the guilty walk free. In this unsettling in-depth analysis, Brandon Garrett examines what went wrong in the cases of the first 250 wrongfully convicted people to be exonerated by DNA testing. Based on trial transcripts, Garrett’s investigation into the causes of wrongful convictions reveals larger patterns of incompetence, abuse, and error. Evidence corrupted by suggestive eyewitness procedures, coercive interrogations, unsound and unreliable forensics, shoddy investigative practices, cognitive bias, and poor lawyering illustrates the weaknesses built into our current criminal justice system. Garrett proposes practical reforms that rely more on documented, recorded, and audited evidence, and less on fallible human memory. Very few crimes committed in the United States involve biological evidence that can be tested using DNA. How many unjust convictions are there that we will never discover? Convicting the Innocent makes a powerful case for systemic reforms to improve the accuracy of all criminal cases.
Innocent Mistakes
Innocent Mistakes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Innocent Mistakes write by Melissa F. Miller. This book was released on 2021-08-24. Innocent Mistakes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Little kids, little problems. Big kids ... federal felony charges? Attorney Sasha McCandless-Connelly has her hands full with her six-year-old twins, but she adores her pack of nieces and nephews. So when sixteen-year-old Colin calls and tearfully announces he's been arrested, she flies into action to protect him. Colin’s accused of using the Internet to make threatening statements, a federal felony. Social media posts by Colin threaten his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend with violence—and worse. Colin swears he didn’t make the posts, and Sasha believes him. Then the private messages turn up. As she shines a light on the high school’s dark underbelly, the teenagers close rank, and the whispered secrets multiply. But she’s confident she can clear Colin’s name. Then someone actually tries to make good on the threat to kill the other boy. Colin’s taken into custody on an attempted murder charge, and the prosecutor vows to try him as an adult. Someone’s trying to frame him. But who? And why? Sasha navigates a web of lies and ever-shifting alliances as she scrambles to save a kid whose diapers she once changed ... even as she realizes she doesn’t know him nearly as well as she thought she did. Innocent Mistakes is the fourteenth full-length novel in the USA Today bestselling Sasha McCandless series.
Why We Make Mistakes
Why We Make Mistakes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why We Make Mistakes write by Joseph T. Hallinan. This book was released on 2009-02-17. Why We Make Mistakes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We forget our passwords. We pay too much to go to the gym. We think we’d be happier if we lived in California (we wouldn’t), and we think we should stick with our first answer on tests (we shouldn’t). Why do we make mistakes? And could we do a little better? We human beings have design flaws. Our eyes play tricks on us, our stories change in the retelling, and most of us are fairly sure we’re way above average. In Why We Make Mistakes, journalist Joseph T. Hallinan sets out to explore the captivating science of human error—how we think, see, remember, and forget, and how this sets us up for wholly irresistible mistakes. In his quest to understand our imperfections, Hallinan delves into psychology, neuroscience, and economics, with forays into aviation, consumer behavior, geography, football, stock picking, and more. He discovers that some of the same qualities that make us efficient also make us error prone. We learn to move rapidly through the world, quickly recognizing patterns—but overlooking details. Which is why thirteen-year-old boys discover errors that NASA scientists miss—and why you can’t find the beer in your refrigerator. Why We Make Mistakes is enlivened by real-life stories—of weathermen whose predictions are uncannily accurate and a witness who sent an innocent man to jail—and offers valuable advice, such as how to remember where you’ve hidden something important. You’ll learn why multitasking is a bad idea, why men make errors women don’t, and why most people think San Diego is west of Reno (it’s not). Why We Make Mistakes will open your eyes to the reasons behind your mistakes—and have you vowing to do better the next time.
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia write by West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals. This book was released on 1882. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Memorandum
The Memorandum - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Memorandum write by . This book was released on 1915. The Memorandum available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
