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Prosecution complex : America's race to convict and its impact on the innocent /

American prosecutors are asked to play two roles within the criminal justice system: they are supposed to be ministers of justice whose only goals are to ensure fair trials, whatever the outcomes of those trials might be--and they are also advocates of the government whose success rates are measured...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Medwed, Daniel S. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : New York University Press, ©2012.
Collection:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies.
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Table des matières:
  • Charging ahead
  • In the interest of full disclosure : discovery in criminal cases
  • Plea bargaining pitfalls
  • Preparation and examination of witnesses
  • Test tubes on trial : prosecutors and forensic evidence
  • Closing the door on innocence : improper summations by prosecutors
  • Prosecutorial resistance to post-conviction claims of innocence
  • A closer look : prosecutors and post-conviction DNA testing
  • In denial : the refusal of prosecutors to accept proof of an inmate's innocence.