Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free : and other paradoxes of our broken legal system / Jed S. Rakoff.
2021
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Author
Title
Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free : and other paradoxes of our broken legal system / Jed S. Rakoff.
Imprint
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Copyright
©2021
Description
193 pages ; 22 cm
Formatted Contents Note
The scourge of mass incarceration
Why innocent people plead guilty
Why eyewitness testimony is so often wrong
Will the death penalty ever die?
The failures, and future, of forensic science
Brain science and the law : uncomfortable bedfellows
Why high-level executives are exempt from prosecution
Justice deferred is justice denied
The shrinkage of legal oversight
The War on Terror's war on law
The Supreme Court's undue subservience to the executive branch
Don't count on the courts
You won't get your day in court.
Why innocent people plead guilty
Why eyewitness testimony is so often wrong
Will the death penalty ever die?
The failures, and future, of forensic science
Brain science and the law : uncomfortable bedfellows
Why high-level executives are exempt from prosecution
Justice deferred is justice denied
The shrinkage of legal oversight
The War on Terror's war on law
The Supreme Court's undue subservience to the executive branch
Don't count on the courts
You won't get your day in court.
Summary
"A senior federal judge's incisive, unsettling exploration of some of the paradoxes that the define the judiciary today: among them, why innocent people plead guilty, why high-level executives aren't prosecuted, why you won't get your day in court, and why the judiciary is curtailing its own constitutionally mandated power"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
Includes index.
Call Number
KF9756 .R35 2021
Language
English
ISBN
9780374289997 hardcover
0374289999 hardcover
0374289999 hardcover
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