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Innocent - Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Innocent - Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases (Hardcover, New Ed)
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In 2003 Governor George Ryan cleared Illinois' death row, pardoning
four death penalty inmates who said their confessions had been
tortured out of them. He then commuted the death sentences of the
remaining 156 death-row inmates to life in prison - a move
unprecedented since capital punishment was reinstated in America.
But Ryan's move was only the most dramatic at a time when it seems
that everyday we read of a new prisoner released because of new
evidence, police misconduct, or a host of other miscarriages of
justice. While the American legal system is based on the tenet that
accused persons are considered innocent until proven guilty, a
close look at many cases reveal that this is often far from the
truth. story of just such wrongful conviction cases. Based upon
interviews with more than 200 people and reviews of hundreds of
internal case files, court records, smoking-gun memoranda and other
documents, Scott Christianson gets inside the legal cases and
displays them through documents and images of the people and
evidence involved. He reveals the mistakes, abuses and underlying
factors that led to miscarriages of justice, including the
presumption of guilt, mistaken identification, eyewitness perjury,
ineffective assistance of counsel, police misconduct, prosecutorial
misconduct, and forensics, while also describing how determined
prisoners, post-conviction attorneys, advocates and journalists
struggled against tremendous odds to win their exonerations. their
innocence to the courts. Others have had their convictions reversed
and the charges against them dismissed, and still others have been
awarded civil damages after the state conceded their innocence. The
result is a brief and powerful work that recounts the human costs
of a criminal justice system gone awry, and reminds us that
wrongful convictions can - and do - happen.
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