Actual Innocence When Justice Goes Wrong and how to Make it Right

Written for lay people in a style that is noticeably devoid of legalistic jargon, Actual Innocence explains through case histories how easy and commonplace it is for an innocent person in this country to be wrongly accused, prosecuted, convicted, imprisoned, and even executed. Those case histories are separated into chapters related to wrongful convictions attributable to specific causes. Although the authors of Actual Innocence recognize wrongful convictions directly result from the malevolence, indifference and incompetence or both of one or more people involved in a prosecution, they see the root of the phenomena as systemic: the judicial system's propensity for generating wrongful convictions is not the result of happenstance, but deeply ingrained pro-prosecution attitudes that infect every court up to and including the Supreme Court.

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