Wrongful convictions and the DNA revolution : twenty-five years of freeing the innocent / [edited by] Daniel S. Medwed, Northeastern University School of Law.
2017
KF9756 .W762 2017 (Mapit)
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Wrongful convictions and the DNA revolution : twenty-five years of freeing the innocent / [edited by] Daniel S. Medwed, Northeastern University School of Law.
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Cambrdige, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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©2017.
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xix, 419 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Foreword / Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld
Talking about a revolution : a quarter century of DNA exonerations / Daniel S. Medwed
Innocence before DNA / Michael Meltsner
Part I. A look back : what have we learned from twenty-five years of DNA exonerations?
Convicting the innocent redux / Brandon L. Garrett
Has the innocence movement become an exoneration movement? : the risks and rewards of redefining innocence / Richard A. Leo
Negotiating accuracy : DNA in the age of plea bargaining / Alexandra Natapoff
Reacting to recantations / Rob Warden
A tale of two innocence clinics : client representation and legislative advocacy / Jacqueline McMurtrie
How DNA has changed contemporary death penalty debates / Michael L. Radelet
What does innocence have to do with cruel and unusual punishment? / Robert J. Smith, G. Ben Cohen and Zoë Robinson
Part II. A glance ahead : what can be done to avoid wrongful convictions in the future?
Flawed science and the new wave of innocents / Keith A. Findley
Prosecutors : the thin last line protecting the innocents / George C. Thomas III
Ineffective assistance of counsel and the innocence revolution : a standards-based approach / Adele Bernhard
Post-conviction procedure : the next frontier in innocence reform / Stephanie Roberts Hartung
Can we protect the innocent without freeing the guilty? : thoughts on innocence reforms that avoid harmful tradeoffs / Paul G. Cassell
Retrospective justice in the age of innocence : the hard case of rape executions / Margaret Burnham
Outbreaks of injustice : responding to systemic irregularities in the criminal justice system / Sandra Guerra Thompson and Robert Wicoff
Exonerating the innocent : habeas for nonhuman animals / Justin F. Marceau and Steven M. Wise
The global innocence movement / Mark Godsey
Innocence at war / Erik Luna.
Talking about a revolution : a quarter century of DNA exonerations / Daniel S. Medwed
Innocence before DNA / Michael Meltsner
Part I. A look back : what have we learned from twenty-five years of DNA exonerations?
Convicting the innocent redux / Brandon L. Garrett
Has the innocence movement become an exoneration movement? : the risks and rewards of redefining innocence / Richard A. Leo
Negotiating accuracy : DNA in the age of plea bargaining / Alexandra Natapoff
Reacting to recantations / Rob Warden
A tale of two innocence clinics : client representation and legislative advocacy / Jacqueline McMurtrie
How DNA has changed contemporary death penalty debates / Michael L. Radelet
What does innocence have to do with cruel and unusual punishment? / Robert J. Smith, G. Ben Cohen and Zoë Robinson
Part II. A glance ahead : what can be done to avoid wrongful convictions in the future?
Flawed science and the new wave of innocents / Keith A. Findley
Prosecutors : the thin last line protecting the innocents / George C. Thomas III
Ineffective assistance of counsel and the innocence revolution : a standards-based approach / Adele Bernhard
Post-conviction procedure : the next frontier in innocence reform / Stephanie Roberts Hartung
Can we protect the innocent without freeing the guilty? : thoughts on innocence reforms that avoid harmful tradeoffs / Paul G. Cassell
Retrospective justice in the age of innocence : the hard case of rape executions / Margaret Burnham
Outbreaks of injustice : responding to systemic irregularities in the criminal justice system / Sandra Guerra Thompson and Robert Wicoff
Exonerating the innocent : habeas for nonhuman animals / Justin F. Marceau and Steven M. Wise
The global innocence movement / Mark Godsey
Innocence at war / Erik Luna.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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KF9756 .W762 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781107129962 hardcover
1107129966 hardcover
1107129966 hardcover
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