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Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free : and other paradoxes of our broken legal system / Jed S. Rakoff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rakoff, Jed S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Judicial error--United States.
- Judicial error.
- False testimony.
- False imprisonment.
- United States.
- False imprisonment--United States.
- False testimony--United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Physical Description:
- 193 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
- Summary:
- "A senior federal judge's incisive, unsettling exploration of some of the paradoxes that the define the judiciary today: among them, why innocent people plead guilty, why high-level executives aren't prosecuted, why you won't get your day in court, and why the judiciary is curtailing its own constitutionally mandated power"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. The Scourge Of Miss Incarceration
- 2. Why Innocent People Plead guilty
- 3. Why Eyewitness Testimony Is So Often Wrong
- 4. Will The Death Penalty Ever Diet
- 5. The Failures, And Future, Of Forensic Science
- 0. Drain Science And The Law-Uncomfortable bedfellows
- 7. Why High-Level Executives Are Exempt From Prosecution
- 8. Justice Deferred Is Justice Denied
- 9. The Shrinkage If Legal Oversight
- 10. The War On Terror's War Oh Law
- 11. The Supreme Court's Undue Subservience To The Executive Branch
- 12. Don't Count On The Courts
- 13. You Won't Get Your Day In Court.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780374289997
- 0374289999
- OCLC:
- 1153550311
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