Flawed Convictions

Flawed Convictions
Author: Deborah Tuerkheimer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2015
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0190233613


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This book surveys the scientific, cultural, and legal history of Shaken Baby Syndrome from inception to formal dissolution. It exposes extraordinary failings in the criminal justice system's treatment of what is, in essence, a medical diagnosis of murder.--Publisher's description.


Flawed Convictions
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Deborah Tuerkheimer
Categories: Family & Relationships
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book surveys the scientific, cultural, and legal history of Shaken Baby Syndrome from inception to formal dissolution. It exposes extraordinary failings in
Overturning Wrongful Convictions
Language: en
Pages: 124
Authors: Elizabeth A. Murray, PhD
Categories: Young Adult Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-01 - Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books

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Imagine being convicted of a crime you didn't commit and spending years behind bars. Since 1989 more than 1,400 Americans who experienced this injustice have be
Convicting the Innocent
Language: en
Pages: 376
Authors: Brandon L. Garrett
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-04 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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On January 20, 1984, Earl Washington—defended for all of forty minutes by a lawyer who had never tried a death penalty case—was found guilty of rape and mur
Good Kids, Bad City
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Kyle Swenson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-12 - Publisher: Picador

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From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids, Bad City is the true story of the longest wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end
The Psychology and Sociology of Wrongful Convictions
Language: en
Pages: 402
Authors: Wendy J Koen
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-26 - Publisher: Academic Press

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Wrongful convictions are the result of faulty or false scientific evidence in 50% of the cases. Defense counsel is often at a great disadvantage in defending ag