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The Plea of Innocence - Restoring Truth to the American Justice System (Hardcover)
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The Plea of Innocence - Restoring Truth to the American Justice System (Hardcover)
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Proposes groundbreaking, fundamental reform for the adversarial
legal system to keep innocent people from going to prison We rely
on the adversarial legal system to hold offenders accountable,
ensure everyone is playing by the same rules, and keep our streets
safe. Unfortunately, a grave condition lingers under the surface:
at all times the imprisonment of possibly tens of thousands of
innocent people. The Plea of Innocence offers a fundamental reform
of the adversarial system: plausibly innocent people may now plead
innocent and require the government to search for exonerating
facts; in return, they will be required to waive their right to
remain silent, speak to government agents, and participate in a
search for truth. While almost all the participants within the
system hope that only guilty people will be convicted, the
unfortunate reality is that innocent people are convicted and
imprisoned at an alarming rate. With the privatization of defense
institutions, accused innocent people are themselves responsible
for finding the facts that could exonerate them. Though the poor
are represented by public defenders-in fact, almost no one who is
charged with a crime has enough money to pay for a complete
defense-it is still accused people, not public officials, who bear
the entire burden of proving their innocence. Tim Bakken believes
that reform of the three-hundred-year-old adversarial system is
long overdue, and that the government should be responsible for
searching for truth-exonerating facts for innocent people-rather
than being satisfied with due process. While it is improbable that
all the facts in any case will ever be known, the essential point
is that the acquisition of facts will almost always benefit an
innocent person who has been accused of a crime. Featuring
compelling evidence and concrete steps for reform, The Plea of
Innocence is at once sensible and revolutionary, a must-read for
anyone invested in restoring truth to the justice system.
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