Overturning Wrongful Convictions - 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 Overturning Wrongful Convictions write by Elizabeth A. Murray, PhD. This book was released on 2015-01-01. Overturning Wrongful Convictions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Imagine being convicted of a crime you didn't commit and spending years behind bars. Since 1989 more than 1,400 Americans who experienced this injustice have been exonerated. Some of the people who have won their freedom include Ronald Cotton, who was falsely convicted of raping a college student; Nicole Harris, who was unjustly imprisoned for the death of her son; and intellectually disabled Earl Washington Jr., who was unfairly sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a young mother. Wrongful convictions shatter lives and harm society by allowing real perpetrators to potentially commit additional crimes. How can such injustices happen? Overturning Wrongful Convictions recounts stories of individuals who served someone else's prison time due to mistaken eyewitness identification, police misconduct, faulty forensic science, poor legal representation, courtroom mistakes, and other factors. You'll learn about the legal processes that can lead to unjust convictions and about the Innocence Project and other organizations dedicated to righting these wrongs. The sciences—including psychology, criminology, police science, and forensic science—work hand in hand with the legal system to prosecute and punish those people whose actions break laws. Those same sciences can also be used to free people who have been wrongfully convicted. As a society, can we learn from past mistakes to avoid more unjust convictions?
Overturning Wrongful Convictions
Overturning Wrongful Convictions - 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 Overturning Wrongful Convictions write by Elizabeth A. Murray. This book was released on 2015. Overturning Wrongful Convictions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents stories of individuals who served someone else's prison time due to mistaken eyewitness identification, police misconduct, faulty forensic science, poor legal representation, courtroom mistakes, and other factors.
Wrongful Conviction and Exoneration
Wrongful Conviction and Exoneration - 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 Wrongful Conviction and Exoneration write by Lisa Idzikowski. This book was released on 2019-07-15. Wrongful Conviction and Exoneration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since 1989, there have been over 2,200 exonerations in the United States. These have resulted from a number of factors, including the discovery of new evidence, perjury, false identification, and bad forensic evidence. Even when an individual is exonerated, is it possible to compensate them for their loss of time and money? This volume looks at the issue from varying perspectives, exploring causes of wrongful convictions, ways to increase exonerations for those who were unjustly imprisoned, strategies to decrease the number of wrongful convictions going forward, and appropriate compensation for those who have lost years of their lives.
TIME Innocent
TIME 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 TIME Innocent write by The Editors of Time. This book was released on 2017-02-17. TIME Innocent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. TIME looks at those wrongfully convicted, and the fight to set them free.
WRONGFUL CONVICTION
WRONGFUL CONVICTION - 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 WRONGFUL CONVICTION write by John A. Humphrey. This book was released on 2018-01-04. WRONGFUL CONVICTION available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The magnitude of wrongful conviction is increasing across the country and around the world, with individuals arrested, convicted, and incarcerated for extended periods of time. This book provides an understanding of legal remedies, organizational reforms, and policy changes that have been proposed and implemented. In various jurisdictions, these procedures reduce the likelihood of a wrongful conviction. Legal and organizational reforms and changes in criminal justice policy are considered at three key junctures of the process: (1) the investigation, evidence gathering, and forensic analysis, (2) prosecutorial decision-making, and (3) the judicial review and exoneration of a wrongfully convicted defendant. Each chapter opens with a wrongful case vignette that illustrates the reform strategies being considered. The investigatory process is studied on each case, and the police process is analyzed in detail. Part 1 includes the introductory chapter that provides an overview of wrongful convictions, and the investigatory process routinely employed to gather evidence and identify a suspect. The analysis of forensic evidence is explored, including the chain of custody, contamination of the evidence, misinterpretation, and the falsification of forensic reports. Part 2 focuses on the prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges and juries. Plea bargaining strategies, coaching witnesses, violations of the rules of discovery, use of jailhouse snitches, inadequate defense counseling, lack of preparation and adequate resources are examined. Part 3 analyzes the processes involved in the reversal of wrongful convictions, the judicial review, and obstacles encountered in the exoneration process. In addition, the authors provide a thorough analytical overview of the criminal justice processes involved in wrongful conviction and the reforms that are needed to prevent and reverse injustices. This book is an invaluable resource for prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, advocates for the wrongfully convicted, criminal justice policymakers, law and society, and will contribute to academic courses in the fields of criminology and justice.
