When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice
- ISBN-10
- 0814740529
- ISBN-13
- 9780814740521
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 349
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-01-01
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Authors
- Austin Sarat, Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Description
Essays that view wrongful convictions not as random mistakes but as organic outcomes of a misshaped larger system that is rife with faulty eyewitness identifications, false confessions, biased juries, and racial discrimination. Together the contributors reveal the dramatic consequences as well as the daily realities of breakdowns in the law's ability to deliver justice swiftly and fairly, and calls on us to look beyond headline-grabbing exonerations to see how failure is embedded in the legal system itself.
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