Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted
- ISBN-10
- 038549341X
- ISBN-13
- 9780385493413
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 297
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Doubleday Books
- Authors
- Jim Dwyer, Peter J. Neufeld, Barry Scheck
Description
Ten true tales of people falsely accused detail the flaws in the criminal justice system that landed these people in prison
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- 2003
- 407 pages
- Paperback
- New Amer Library
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