The Supreme Court's Actual Innocence Problem : How the Supreme Court of the United States Has Failed to Reduce Wrongful Convictions.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goetting, Nathan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judicial error.

Judicial ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford : Ethics International Press Limited, 2025.

Summary:

The author analyzes recent US Supreme Court rulings in all of the areas of constitutional criminal procedure, which wrongful convictions scholars generally agree are most flawed in ways that lead to wrongful convictions. These problem areas include: 1) Eyewitness identification procedures 2) Police interrogations 3) Forensic evidence 4) Informant testimony 5) Indigent defense 6) Prosecutorial Immunity and 7) The rights of inmates to post-conviction actual innocence hearings. He also explains the terrifying phenomenon of wrongful executions, which are inevitable in any nation that tolerates both wrongful convictions and the death penalty. This book makes a unique contribution to the literature on wrongful convictions by explaining how the Supreme Court has failed to adequately respond to the data on inmate exonerations since the DNA Revolution in forensic science. Even when confronted with recent exoneration data, the Supreme Court has continued, in every major area where reform is needed, to minimize and perpetuate the miscarriages of justice.

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

By Jennifer Tiedemann

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Screen Out Unreliable Eyewitnesses

Chapter 3 Restore Miranda

Chapter 4 Regulate the Use of Snitches in Courtrooms

Chapter 5 Hold Prosecutors Accountable

Chapter 6 Ensure a Competent Defense

Chapter 7 Expose Junk Science and Junk Scientists

Chapter 8 Use New Science To Correct Past Mistakes

Chapter 9 Open the Courthouse Door

Chapter 10 Crackdown On Entrapment and Outrageous Government Conduct

Chapter 11 Abolish the Death Penalty ( Capital Sentencing Is Hopelessly Broken

Chapter 12 Abolish the Death Penalty ( It Will Always Be Barbarous

Acknowledgements.

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ISBN:

1-83711-161-8

OCLC:

1521497615