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The fascinating story behind the innocence movement's quest for justice.Documentaries like Making a Murderer, the first season of Serial, and the cause célèbre that was the West Memphis Three captured the attention of millions and focused the national discussion on wrongful convictions. This interest is warranted: more than 1,800 people have been set free in recent decades after being convicted of crimes they did not commit. In response to these exonerations, federal and state governments have passed laws to prevent such injustices; lawyers and police have changed their practices; and advocacy organizations have multiplied across the country. Together, these activities are often referred to as the “innocence movement.” Exonerated provides the first in-depth look at the history of this movement through interviews with key leaders such as Barry Scheck and Rob Warden as well as archival and field research into the major cases that brought awareness to wrongful convictions in the United States. Robert Norris also examines how and why the innocence movement took hold. He argues that while the innocence movement did not begin as an organized campaign, scientific, legal, and cultural developments led to a widespread understanding that new technology and renewed investigative diligence could both catch the guilty and free the innocent. Exonerated reveals the rich background story to this complex movement.
Judicial error --- False imprisonment --- Post-conviction remedies --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Postconviction remedies --- Constitutional law --- Criminal procedure --- Remedies (Law) --- Abuse of process --- Imprisonment, False --- Wrongful imprisonment --- Wrongful incarceration --- Imprisonment --- Malicious prosecution --- Offenses against the person --- Torts --- Conviction of the innocent --- Convictions, Erroneous --- Convictions, Mistaken --- Convictions, Wrongful --- Criminal justice, Errors of --- Erroneous convictions --- Errors of criminal justice --- Innocent, Conviction of the --- Justice, Miscarriage of --- Miscarriage of justice --- Mistaken convictions --- Wrongful convictions --- Justice, Administration of --- Trials --- History. --- Law and legislation --- Judicial error - United States - History --- False imprisonment - Law and legislation - United States - History --- Post-conviction remedies - United States - History --- Criminal justice, Administration of - United States - History
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Torts. --- Causation. --- Causality --- Cause and effect --- Effect and cause --- Final cause --- Beginning --- God --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Teleology --- Civil wrongs --- Delicts --- Injuries (Law) --- Quasi delicts --- Wrongful acts --- Accident law --- Actions and defenses --- Liability (Law) --- Obligations (Law) --- Negligence --- Reasonable care (Law)
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In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. In telling this strange, fascinating story, Karen Cox highlights the larger ideas that made the tale so irresistible to the popular press and provides a unique lens through which to view the transformation of the US South.
African Americans --- Judicial error --- Murder --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Conviction of the innocent --- Convictions, Erroneous --- Convictions, Mistaken --- Convictions, Wrongful --- Criminal justice, Errors of --- Erroneous convictions --- Errors of criminal justice --- Innocent, Conviction of the --- Justice, Miscarriage of --- Miscarriage of justice --- Mistaken convictions --- Wrongful convictions --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Justice, Administration of --- Trials --- Criminal homicide --- Killing (Murder) --- Homicide --- Civil rights --- History --- Segregation --- Dockery, Octavia, --- Dana, Dick, --- Merrill, Jennie, --- Black people
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Law --- Information technology --- Technology and law. --- Internet --- Computer networks --- Torts. --- Data processing. --- Law and legislation. --- Accident law --- Actions and defenses --- Liability (Law) --- Obligations (Law) --- Negligence --- Reasonable care (Law) --- Civil wrongs --- Delicts --- Injuries (Law) --- Quasi delicts --- Wrongful acts --- Cyberspace --- Law and technology --- Technology and law --- Law and legislation --- Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law --- Torts --- Data processing
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Improving access to justice has been an ongoing but frustrating goal of our society. The theme of this work is that we have new technological tools to resolve disputes and new tools to prevent disputes.
Law --- Information technology --- Technology and law. --- Internet --- Computer networks --- Torts. --- Data processing. --- Law and legislation. --- Civil wrongs --- Delicts --- Injuries (Law) --- Quasi delicts --- Wrongful acts --- Accident law --- Actions and defenses --- Liability (Law) --- Obligations (Law) --- Negligence --- Reasonable care (Law) --- Cyberspace --- Law and technology --- Technology and law --- Law and legislation
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In the European Union, courts have been expanding the enforcement of intellectual property rights by employing injunctions to compel intermediaries to provide assistance, despite no allegation of wrongdoing against these parties. These prospective injunctions, designed to prevent future harm, thus hold parties accountable where no liability exists. Effectively a new type of regulatory tool, these injunctions are distinct from the conventional secondary liability in tort. At present, they can be observed in orders to compel website blocking, content filtering, or disconnection, but going forward, their use is potentially unlimited. This book outlines the paradigmatic shift this entails for the future of the Internet and analyzes the associated legal and economic opportunities and problems.
Injunctions --- Provisional remedies --- Intellectual property --- Intellectual property infringement --- Torts --- Interdict (Civil law) --- Uti possidetis (Civil law) --- Possession (Law) --- Civil wrongs --- Delicts --- Injuries (Law) --- Quasi delicts --- Wrongful acts --- Accident law --- Actions and defenses --- Liability (Law) --- Obligations (Law) --- Negligence --- Reasonable care (Law) --- Infringement of intellectual property --- Civil procedure --- Remedies (Law) --- Anti-injunction law --- Constitutional law --- Equitable remedies --- Extraordinary remedies
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In this unprecedented view from the trenches, prosecutor turned champion for the innocent Mark Godsey takes us inside the frailties of the human mind as they unfold in real-world wrongful convictions. Drawing upon stories from his own career, Godsey shares how innate psychological flaws in judges, police, lawyers, and juries coupled with a "tough on crime" environment can cause investigations to go awry, leading to the convictions of innocent people. In Blind Injustice, Godsey explores distinct psychological human weaknesses inherent in the criminal justice system-confirmation bias, memory malleability, cognitive dissonance, bureaucratic denial, dehumanization, and others-and illustrates each with stories from his time as a hard-nosed prosecutor and then as an attorney for the Ohio Innocence Project. He also lays bare the criminal justice system's internal political pressures. How does the fact that judges, sheriffs, and prosecutors are elected officials influence how they view cases? How can defense attorneys support clients when many are overworked and underpaid? And how do juries overcome bias leading them to believe that police and expert witnesses know more than they do about what evidence means? This book sheds a harsh light on the unintentional yet routine injustices committed by those charged with upholding justice. Yet in the end, Godsey recommends structural, procedural, and attitudinal changes aimed at restoring justice to the criminal justice system.
Judicial error --- Prejudices --- Bias (Psychology) --- Prejudgments --- Prejudice --- Prejudices and antipathies --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Emotions --- Psychological aspects. --- american judicial system. --- bureaucracy. --- dehumanization. --- human weakness. --- innocent imprisoned. --- lawyers. --- ohio innocence project. --- penitentiary workers. --- psychologists. --- psychology. --- social justice. --- tough on crime. --- wrongful convictions. --- wrongfully convicted.
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Over the years, American colleges and universities have made various efforts to provide prisoners with access to education. However, few of these outreach programs presume that incarcerated men and women can rise to the challenge of a truly rigorous college curriculum. The Bard Prison Initiative is different. College in Prison chronicles how, since 2001, Bard College has provided hundreds of incarcerated men and women across the country access to a high-quality liberal arts education. Earning degrees in subjects ranging from Mandarin to advanced mathematics, graduates have, upon release, gone on to rewarding careers and elite graduate and professional programs. Yet this is more than just a story of exceptional individuals triumphing against the odds. It is a study in how the liberal arts can alter the landscape of some of our most important public institutions giving people from all walks of life a chance to enrich their minds and expand their opportunities. Drawing on fifteen years of experience as a director of and teacher within the Bard Prison Initiative, Daniel Karpowitz tells the story of BPI's development from a small pilot project to a nationwide network. At the same time, he recounts dramatic scenes from in and around college-in-prison classrooms pinpointing the contested meanings that emerge in moments of highly-charged reading, writing, and public speaking. Through examining the transformative encounter between two characteristically American institutions-the undergraduate college and the modern penitentiary-College in Prison makes a powerful case for why liberal arts education is still vital to the future of democracy in the United States.
Prison administration --- Education, Higher --- Prisoners --- EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology. --- EDUCATION / Higher. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology. --- Administration of prisons --- Prison management --- Prisons --- Management --- College students --- Higher education --- Postsecondary education --- Universities and colleges --- Convicts --- Correctional institutions --- Imprisoned persons --- Incarcerated persons --- Prison inmates --- Inmates of institutions --- Persons --- History. --- Social aspects --- Education (Higher) --- Administration --- Education --- Inmates --- Bard College --- Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. --- Columbia University. --- St. Stephen's College (Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.) --- american prison system. --- american prison. --- amphetamines. --- books. --- cocaine. --- college. --- crack. --- drug culture. --- drugs. --- education. --- higher education. --- incarceration. --- injustice. --- jail. --- marijuana. --- mass incarceration. --- meth. --- methamphetamines. --- pot. --- prescription drugs. --- prison population. --- prison system. --- prisoner. --- racism. --- reading. --- rehab. --- rehabilitation. --- war on drugs. --- weed. --- wrongful imprisonment. --- wrongfully imprisoned.
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