Wrongful convictions and the DNA revolution : twenty-five years of freeing the innocent /

This book examines the lessons learned from twenty-five years of using DNA to free innocent prisoners and identifies lingering challenges.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Medwed, Daniel S. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Temas:
Judicial error > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
DNA fingerprinting > Law and legislation > U nited States.
Erreur judiciaire > États-Unis.
Justice pénale > Administration > États-Unis.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
Criminal justice, Administration of
DNA fingerprinting > Law and legislation
Judicial error
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Talking about a revolution : a quarter century of DNA exonerations / Daniel S. Medwed
  • Innocence before DNA / Michael Meltsner
  • Connecting 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
  • 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 trade-offs / Paul G. Cassell
  • Retrospective justice in the age of innocence : the hard case of rape executions / Margaret Burnham
  • Outbreaks of injustice : responding to systemic irregularlities 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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