Flawed convictions : "shaken baby syndrome" and the inertia of injustice / Deborah Tuerkheimer.
2014
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Author
Title
Flawed convictions : "shaken baby syndrome" and the inertia of injustice / Deborah Tuerkheimer.
Published
Oxford, [England] ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Call Number
KF9323 .T84 2014
ISBN
9780199913633 (hardback) : alk. paper)
0199913633 (hardback) : alk. paper)
0199913633 (hardback) : alk. paper)
Description
xiv, 298 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)858081012
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-289) and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Edith L. Fisch Fund
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xi
1.
A Medical Diagnosis of Crime
1
A Simple Diagnosis
5
The Prosecution Paradigm
7
The Lure of Blame
13
2.
Complications
17
Scrutiny
17
The New SBS
20
Doubtful Convictions
27
3.
The Triad Endures
31
Today's SBS
31
Child Abuse Specialization
34
Prosecutorial Certainty
37
Staying Power
42
4.
Trials
45
Deciding Guilt
46
Case on Trial
49
5.
Missed Diagnosis
67
Diagnostic Error
70
A Legal Perspective on Differential Diagnosis
75
Anatomy of a Missed Diagnosis
82
6.
Confessions
97
Non-Confession Confessions
97
Unreliable Confessions
99
Inside the Interrogation Room
105
7.
Fluky Justice
127
Acquittals
128
Dismissals
145
No-Arrest Cases
150
8.
Guilty Pleas
159
A System in Flux
160
When Innocents Plead Guilty
163
Case Studies in Lopsided Pleas
165
The Meaning of Lopsided Pleas
171
9.
The Limits of Judicial Review
173
Sufficiency Challenges
173
Collateral Attack
181
10.
Reform
195
Improving Medical Outcomes
195
Upstream Innocence Protection
197
Downstream Innocence Protection
207
Notes
219
Index
291