Convicting the innocent : sixty-five actual errors of criminal justice / by Edwin M. Borchard ; with the collaboration of E. Russell Lutz.
1932
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Title
Convicting the innocent : sixty-five actual errors of criminal justice / by Edwin M. Borchard ; with the collaboration of E. Russell Lutz.
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Imprint
Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., [1932]
Distributed
[Getzville, New York] : William S. Hein & Co., [2017]
Description
1 online resource (x, 383 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates) : facsimiles, portraits.
Series
History of capital punishment.
Criminal justice & criminology.
Legal classics library.
World trials library.
Criminal justice & criminology.
Legal classics library.
World trials library.
Summary
Collection of sixty-five cases of erroneous criminal convictions of innocent people, the causes of error being due in the main to mistaken identification, circumstantial evidence, or perjury, or some combination of these. Includes an analysis of the statutes of European countries providing indemnity for wrongfully convicted and arrested persons, to be used as a basis for American legislation.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Source of Description
Description based on PDF title page, viewed June 26, 2017.
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HeinOnline.
Language
English
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