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Wrongful Convictions and the DNA Revolution

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For centuries, most people believed the criminal justice system worked - that only guilty defendants were convicted. DNA technology shattered that belief. DNA has now freed more than three hundred innocent prisoners in the United States. This book examines the lessons learned from twenty-five years of DNA exonerations and identifies lingering challenges. By studying the dataset of DNA exonerations, we know that precise factors lead to wrongful convictions. These include eyewitness misidentifications, false confessions, dishonest informants, poor defense lawyering, weak forensic evidence, and prosecutorial misconduct. In Part I, scholars discuss the efforts of the Innocence Movement over the past quarter century to expose the phenomenon of wrongful convictions and to implement lasting reforms. In Part II, another set of researchers looks ahead and evaluates what still needs to be done to realize the ideal of a more accurate system.

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ISBN: 9781107129962
Publication date: 30th March 2017
Author: Daniel S. Medwed
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 407 pages
Genres: Systems of law
Law and society, sociology of law
Legal aspects of criminology
Legal skills and practice
Legal history
Criminal law: procedure and offences