Prosecution of Adult Felony Defendants in Yamhill County
Title | Prosecution of Adult Felony Defendants in Yamhill County PDF eBook |
Author | Gary C. Findley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Criminal justice, Administration of |
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House Joint Resolutions
Title | House Joint Resolutions PDF eBook |
Author | Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives |
Publisher | |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Legislation |
ISBN |
Police Integrity
Title | Police Integrity PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Diane Books Publishing Company |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
Presents the proceedings of the Nat. Symposium on Police Integrity with participants including police chiefs, sheriffs, police researchers, police officers, members of other professional disciplines, community leaders, and members of other Federal agencies. Plenary sessions and working groups address integrity and ethics; challenges facing the law enforcement executive profession; the impact of police culture, leadership, and organization on integrity; how to effectively cope with influences in the police organization and culture and community; and the impact of internal systems and external forces on police integrity. Bibliography.
ABA Standards for Criminal Justice, Pretrial Release
Title | ABA Standards for Criminal Justice, Pretrial Release PDF eBook |
Author | American Bar Association. Criminal Justice Standards Committee |
Publisher | American Bar Association |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9781590311783 |
"Project of the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Standards Committee, Criminal Justice Section"--Title page verso.
Official Voters' Pamphlet
Title | Official Voters' Pamphlet PDF eBook |
Author | Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1048 |
Release | 1960-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Emerging Judicial Strategies for the Mentally Ill in the Criminal Caseload
Title | Emerging Judicial Strategies for the Mentally Ill in the Criminal Caseload PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Criminal justice, Administration of |
ISBN |
Convicting the Innocent
Title | Convicting the Innocent PDF eBook |
Author | Brandon L. Garrett |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2011-08-04 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0674060989 |
On January 20, 1984, Earl Washington—defended for all of forty minutes by a lawyer who had never tried a death penalty case—was found guilty of rape and murder in the state of Virginia and sentenced to death. After nine years on death row, DNA testing cast doubt on his conviction and saved his life. However, he spent another eight years in prison before more sophisticated DNA technology proved his innocence and convicted the guilty man. DNA exonerations have shattered confidence in the criminal justice system by exposing how often we have convicted the innocent and let the guilty walk free. In this unsettling in-depth analysis, Brandon Garrett examines what went wrong in the cases of the first 250 wrongfully convicted people to be exonerated by DNA testing. Based on trial transcripts, Garrett’s investigation into the causes of wrongful convictions reveals larger patterns of incompetence, abuse, and error. Evidence corrupted by suggestive eyewitness procedures, coercive interrogations, unsound and unreliable forensics, shoddy investigative practices, cognitive bias, and poor lawyering illustrates the weaknesses built into our current criminal justice system. Garrett proposes practical reforms that rely more on documented, recorded, and audited evidence, and less on fallible human memory. Very few crimes committed in the United States involve biological evidence that can be tested using DNA. How many unjust convictions are there that we will never discover? Convicting the Innocent makes a powerful case for systemic reforms to improve the accuracy of all criminal cases.