| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
This book examines the lessons learned from twenty-five years of using DNA to free innocent prisoners and identifies lingering challenges |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 20, 2017) |
| Subject |
Judicial error -- United States
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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DNA fingerprinting -- Law and legislation -- U nited States
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
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Criminal justice, Administration of
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DNA fingerprinting -- Law and legislation
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Judicial error
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Medwed, Daniel S., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781108139878 |
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1108139876 |
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1108139752 |
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9781108139755 |
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9781316417119 |
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1316417115 |
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9781107570467 |
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1107570468 |
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