LEADER 04288nam 2200613 450 001 9910464502203321 005 20210421195850.0 010 $a0-231-53668-2 024 7 $a10.7312/lieb16722 035 $a(CKB)3710000000198345 035 $a(EBL)1708620 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1708620 035 $a(DE-B1597)458418 035 $a(OCoLC)884013587 035 $a(OCoLC)888125642 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231536684 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1708620 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10901847 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL685525 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000198345 100 $a20140811h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe wrong Carlos $eanatomy of a wrongful execution /$fJames S. Liebman [and five others] ; Marc Cohen, cover design 205 $aPilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2014. 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (447 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-16723-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tPrologue --$tPart I. The Death of Wanda Lopez --$tPart II. The Lives of Carlos Hernandez --$tPart III. The Prosecution of Carlos DeLuna --$tPart IV. The Passion of Carlos DeLuna --$tPart V. The Scars of Dina Ybañez --$tEpilogue --$tAppendix. People --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn 1989, Texas executed Carlos DeLuna, a poor Hispanic man with childlike intelligence, for the murder of Wanda Lopez, a convenience store clerk. His execution passed unnoticed for years until a team of Columbia Law School faculty and students almost accidentally chose to investigate his case and found that DeLuna almost certainly was innocent. They discovered that no one had cared enough about either the defendant or the victim to make sure the real perpetrator was found. Everything that could go wrong in a criminal case did. This book documents DeLuna's conviction, which was based on a single, nighttime, cross-ethnic eyewitness identification with no corroborating forensic evidence. At his trial, DeLuna's defense, that another man named Carlos had committed the crime, was not taken seriously. The lead prosecutor told the jury that the other Carlos, Carlos Hernandez, was a "phantom" of DeLuna's imagination. In upholding the death penalty on appeal, both the state and federal courts concluded the same thing: Carlos Hernandez did not exist. The evidence the Columbia team uncovered reveals that Hernandez not only existed but was well known to the police and prosecutors. He had a long history of violent crimes similar to the one for which DeLuna was executed. Families of both Carloses mistook photos of each for the other, and Hernandez's violence continued after DeLuna was put to death. This book and its website (thewrongcarlos.net) reproduce law-enforcement, crime lab, lawyer, court, social service, media, and witness records, as well as court transcripts, photographs, radio traffic, and audio and videotaped interviews, documenting one of the most comprehensive investigations into a criminal case in U.S. history. The result is eye-opening yet may not be unusual. Faulty eyewitness testimony, shoddy legal representation, and prosecutorial misfeasance continue to put innocent people at risk of execution. The principal investigators conclude with novel suggestions for improving accuracy among the police, prosecutors, forensic scientists, and judges. 606 $aTrials (Murder)$zTexas 606 $aCapital punishment$zTexas 606 $aJudicial error$zTexas 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTrials (Murder) 615 0$aCapital punishment 615 0$aJudicial error 676 $a364.152/3092 700 $aLiebman$b James, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01036824 702 $aLiebman$b James S. 702 $aCohen$b Marc 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464502203321 996 $aThe wrong Carlos$92457400 997 $aUNINA