LEADER 03963nam 22006615 450 001 9910790036203321 005 20230725031332.0 010 $a0-674-06098-9 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674060982 035 $a(CKB)2670000000092543 035 $a(EBL)3300940 035 $a(OCoLC)727949876 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000521720 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11366810 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000521720 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10522764 035 $a(PQKB)11311882 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001143680 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12376128 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001143680 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11107943 035 $a(PQKB)11746783 035 $a(DE-B1597)178230 035 $a(OCoLC)979683592 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674060982 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300940 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000092543 100 $a20190708d2011 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConvicting the Innocent $eWhere Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong /$fBrandon Garrett 210 1$aCambridge, MA :$cHarvard University Press,$d[2011] 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (376 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-674-06611-1 311 0 $a0-674-05870-4 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tChapter 1. Introduction --$tChapter 2. Contaminated Confessions --$tChapter 3. Eyewitness Misidentifications --$tChapter 4. Flawed Forensics --$tChapter 5. Trial by Liar --$tChapter 6. Innocence on Trial --$tChapter 7. Judging Innocence --$tChapter 8. Exoneration --$tChapter 9. Reforming the Criminal Justice System --$tAppendix --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aOn January 20, 1984, Earl Washington-defended for all of forty minutes by a lawyer who had never tried a death penalty case-was found guilty of rape and murder in the state of Virginia and sentenced to death. After nine years on death row, DNA testing cast doubt on his conviction and saved his life. However, he spent another eight years in prison before more sophisticated DNA technology proved his innocence and convicted the guilty man. DNA exonerations have shattered confidence in the criminal justice system by exposing how often we have convicted the innocent and let the guilty walk free. In this unsettling in-depth analysis, Brandon Garrett examines what went wrong in the cases of the first 250 wrongfully convicted people to be exonerated by DNA testing. Based on trial transcripts, Garrett's investigation into the causes of wrongful convictions reveals larger patterns of incompetence, abuse, and error. Evidence corrupted by suggestive eyewitness procedures, coercive interrogations, unsound and unreliable forensics, shoddy investigative practices, cognitive bias, and poor lawyering illustrates the weaknesses built into our current criminal justice system. Garrett proposes practical reforms that rely more on documented, recorded, and audited evidence, and less on fallible human memory. Very few crimes committed in the United States involve biological evidence that can be tested using DNA. How many unjust convictions are there that we will never discover? Convicting the Innocent makes a powerful case for systemic reforms to improve the accuracy of all criminal cases. 606 $aElectronic books. -- local 606 $aJudicial error$zUnited States 606 $aEvidence, Criminal$zUnited States 606 $aPost-conviction remedies$zUnited States 615 4$aElectronic books. -- local. 615 0$aJudicial error 615 0$aEvidence, Criminal 615 0$aPost-conviction remedies 676 $a345.73064 700 $aGarrett$b Brandon$01097337 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790036203321 996 $aConvicting the Innocent$93794158 997 $aUNINA