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Reasons to doubt : wrongful convictions and the criminal cases review commission
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ISBN: 0191836028 0192513427 0192513435 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This text reveals what happens to applications for post-conviction review when those in England and Wales who consider themselves to have been wrongfully convicted, and have exhausted direct appeal processes, apply to have their case assessed by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. It presents the findings of the first thorough empirical study of decision-making and the use of discretion within the Commission. It shows how the Commission exercises its discretionary powers in identifying and investigating possible wrongful convictions for rehearing by the Court of Appeal.


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Redressing miscarriages of justice : practice and procedure in (international) criminal cases
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ISBN: 9004255745 9789004255746 9789004252837 9004252835 1299718450 Year: 2013 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,

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In Redressing Miscarriages of Justice (2nd edition) Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops offers an extensive review of the (procedural) mechanisms available in different (international) criminal law systems, in order to prevent and redress miscarriages of justice. The mechanisms will be illustrated on the basis of the causes of miscarriages of justice. Disclosure deficiencies, false confessions, eyewitness misidentification and (fraudulent) forensic sciences are all topics that pass in review. The new chapter to this 2nd edition gives particular insight from a defence perspective; it delves into the issue of challenging and investigating forensic “science” reports and is illustrated with some vivid case examples. The book is essential to everyone studying and challenging wrongful convictions, since it combines both procedures and causes. In Redressing Miscarriages of Justice (2nd edition) Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops offers an extensive review of the (procedural) mechanisms available in different (international) criminal law systems, in order to prevent and redress miscarriages of justice. The mechanisms will be illustrated on the basis of the causes of miscarriages of justice. Disclosure deficiencies, false confessions, eyewitness misidentification and (fraudulent) forensic sciences are all topics that pass in review. The new chapter to this 2nd edition gives particular insight from a defence perspective; it delves into the issue of challenging and investigating forensic “science” reports and is illustrated with some vivid case examples. The book is essential to everyone studying and challenging wrongful convictions, since it combines both procedures and causes.

Innocent : Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases
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ISBN: 0814790216 9780814790212 0814716342 9780814716342 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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Innocent graphically documents forty-two recent criminal cases to find evidence of shocking miscarriages of justice, especially in murder cases. Based upon interviews with more than 200 people and reviews of hundreds internal case files, court records, smoking-gun memoranda, and other documents, Scott Christianson gets inside the legal cases, revealing the mistakes, abuses, and underlying factors that led to miscarriages of justice, while also describing how determined prisoners, post-conviction attorneys, advocates, and journalists struggle against tremendous odds to try to win their exonerations.The result is a powerful work that recounts the human costs of a criminal justice system gone awry, and shows us how wrongful convictions can—and do—happen everywhere.


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Three false convictions, many lessons : the psychopathology of unjust prosecutions
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ISBN: 1910979155 1910979147 9781910979143 9781910979150 9781909976351 1909976350 Year: 2016 Publisher: Hook, England : Waterside Press,

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A new perspective on the roles of psychopathology, confirmation bias, false confessions, the media and internet (amongst other causes) of unjust accusations. Putting lack of empathy at the fore in terms of police, prosecutors and others, it considers a wide range of other psychopathological aspects of miscarriages of justice.


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Rough Justice : Citizens' Experiences of Mistreatment and Injustice in the Early Stages of Law Enforcement
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ISBN: 9781908162922 1908162929 1908162937 9781908162939 9781909976184 1909976180 Year: 2015 Publisher: Hook : Waterside Press,

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Rough Justice recounts the experiences of victims of police and criminal justice failings through the stories of some who fought back, often with amazing commitment and courage.

The decline of the death penalty and the discovery of innocence
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ISBN: 9780521887342 9780521715249 9780511790638 9780511379321 0511379323 9780511376641 0511376642 0511378459 9780511378454 0511790635 0521887348 0521715245 110718701X 1281243868 9786611243869 0511377584 0511375107 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Since 1996, death sentences in America have declined by more than 60 percent, reversing a generation-long trend toward greater acceptance of capital punishment. In theory, most Americans continue to support the death penalty. But it is no longer seen as a theoretical matter. Prosecutors, judges, and juries across the country have moved in large numbers to give much greater credence to the possibility of mistakes - mistakes that in this arena are potentially fatal. The discovery of innocence, documented in this book through painstaking analyses of media coverage and with newly developed methods, has led to historic shifts in public opinion and to a sharp decline in use of the death penalty by juries across the country. A social cascade, starting with legal clinics and innocence projects, has snowballed into a national phenomenon that may spell the end of the death penalty in America.


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Goat Castle : A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South
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ISBN: 1469635046 1469635054 9781469635040 9781469635057 9781469635033 1469635038 1469661438 9798890849151 1541490932 9781541490932 Year: 2017 Publisher: Chapel Hill : Baltimore, Md. : University of North Carolina Press, Project MUSE,

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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.

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