Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right
Here are the stories of innocent men and women—and the system that put them away under the guise of justice. Now updated with new information, Actual Innocence sheds light on “a system that tolerates lying prosecutors, slumbering defense attorneys and sloppy investigators” (Salt Lake Tribune)—revealing the shocking flaws that can derail the legal process and the ways that DNA testing has often shattered so-called solid evidence that condemned American citizens to death.
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Here are the stories of innocent men and women-and the system that put them away under the guise of justice. Now updated with new information, Actual Innocence sheds light on "a system that tolerates lying prosecutors, slumbering defense attorneys and sloppy investigators" (Salt Lake Tribune)-revealing the shocking flaws that can derail the legal process and the ways that DNA testing has often shattered so-called solid evidence that condemned American citizens to death. Philadelphia Inquirer Should be required reading.
Authors' NotexiIntroduction: Wrong Numbersxiii1.An Innocence Project12.An Invention453.Seeing Things534.False Confessions1015.White Coat Fraud1386.Snitch1637.Junk Science2048.Broken Oaths2229.Sleeping Lawyers23710.Race25011.The Death of Innocents27312.Starting Over28913.Lessons30914.Reckonings: An Update329Appendix 1A Short List of Reforms to Protect the Innocent351Appendix 2DNA Exonerations at a Glance363Sources369Acknowledgments389Index395
\ Washington PostYou will not soon read a more frightening book.\ \ \ \ \ William BernhardtThis may be the most important book on Amer-ican criminal justice in a decade.\ \ \ Philadelphia InquirerShould be required reading.\ \ \ \ \ Jonathan Harr[A] hair-raising account of how fatally wrong things can go inside the American criminal justice system.\ \
