Convicting the Innocent; Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice

Convicting the Innocent; Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice
ISBN-10
1407711245
ISBN-13
9781407711249
Category
Compensation for judicial error
Pages
418
Language
English
Published
2012-01
Publisher
Hardpress Publishing
Author
Edwin Montefiore Borchard

Description

Collection of sixty-five cases of erroneous criminal convictions of innocent people, the causes of error being due in the main to mistaken identification, circumstantial evidence, or perjury, or some combination of these. Includes an analysis of the statutes of European countries providing indemnity for wrongfully convicted and arrested persons to be used as a basis for American legislation.

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