This book and audio CD set presents the history and background information on the scope of wrongful convictions, the reasons they occur as often as they do and what practitioners can do to avoid wrongful convictions in the future and assist those handling current wrongful conviction cases today.
Summary of Contents:
The Main Causes of Wrongful Convictions; Eyewitness Misidentification; Eyewitness Misidentification; Reevaluating Lineups: Why Witnesses Make Mistakes and How to Reduce the Chance of a Misidentification – Executive Summary; Eyewitness Identification Reform- Fact Sheet; False Confessions; False Confessions; Fact Sheet: False Confessions & Recording of Custodial Interrogations; Why People Waive Their Miranda Rights: The Power of Innocence; Unvalidated or Improper Forensic Science; Unvalidated or Improper Forensic Science; Forensic Oversight; National Academy of Sciences Urges Comprehensive Reform of U.S. Forensic Sciences; Preservation of Evidence; Evidence Preservation; Government Misconduct; Government Misconduct; New Report: Prosecutorial Misconduct and Wrongful Convictions; Court Findings of Prosecutorial Misconduct Claims in Post-Conviction Appeals and Civil Suits among the First 255 DNA Exoneration Cases – Executive Summary; Informants/Snitches; Bad Lawyering;Bad Lawyering; Court Findings of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claims in Post-Conviction Appeals among the First 255 DNA Exoneration Cases; Appendix: Henry W. Skinner v. Lynn Switzer; Initial Brief; Respondents Initial Brief; Reply Brief; Oral Argument | Profiles; Kirk Bloodsworth; Dale Brison; Bruce Godschalk; Michael Anthony Green; Alan Newton | Stopping Wrongful Convictions Before They Happen | Appendices; Selected Materials from Police Misconduct: Defending Criminal Cases in Pennsylvania; Confidential Informants: Defense and Commonwealth perspectives; Selected Materials from The Post Conviction Relief Act: Practice & Procedure 2010 Edition; Sample PCRA’s; Informal Opinion; The Embarrassment of Innocence.
Number of Pages: 494
