Wrongful convictions and the DNA revolution : twenty-five years of freeing the innocent / [edited by] Daniel S. Medwed, Northeastern University School of Law.
2017
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Title
Wrongful convictions and the DNA revolution : twenty-five years of freeing the innocent / [edited by] Daniel S. Medwed, Northeastern University School of Law.
Published
Cambrdige, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Copyright
©2017
Call Number
KF9756 .W76 2017
ISBN
9781107129962 hardcover
1107129966 hardcover
1107129966 hardcover
Description
xix, 419 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Other Standard Identifiers
13159202
System Control No.
(OCoLC)959262466
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Contributors
xi
Acknowledgments
xv
Foreword / Peter Neufeld
xvii
Introduction
1
1.
Talking about a Revolution: A Quarter Century of DNA Exonerations / Daniel S. Medwed
2
2.
Innocence before DNA / Michael Meltsner
14
pt. I
LOOK BACK: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED FROM TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF DNA EXONERATIONS?
37
Big Picture
39
3.
Convicting the Innocent Redux / Brandon L. Garrett
40
4.
Has the Innocence Movement Become an Exoneration Movement? The Risks and Rewards of Redefining Innocence / Richard A. Leo
57
Closer Look at Specific Lessons
84
5.
Negotiating Accuracy: DNA in the Age of Plea Bargaining / Alexandra Natapoff
85
6.
Reacting to Recantations / Rob Warden
106
7.
Tale of Two Innocence Clinics: Client Representation and Legislative Advocacy / Jacqueline McMurtrie
117
DNA Era and Changing Views of the Death Penalty
137
8.
How DNA Has Changed Contemporary Death Penalty Debates / Michael L. Radelet
138
9.
What Does Innocence Have to Do with Cruel and Unusual Punishment? / Zoe Robinson
159
pt. II
GLANCE AHEAD: WHAT CAN BE DONE TO AVOID WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS IN THE FUTURE?
181
Substantive Reforms
183
10.
Flawed Science and the New Wave of Innocents / Keith A. Findley
184
11.
Prosecutors: The Thin Last Line Protecting the Innocents / George C. Thomas
208
12.
Ineffective Assistance of Counsel and the Innocence Revolution: A Standards-Based Approach / Adele Bernhard
226
Procedural Changes
246
13.
Post-Conviction Procedure: The Next Frontier in Innocence Reform / Stephanie Roberts Hartung
247
14.
Can We Protect the Innocent without Freeing the Guilty? Thoughts on Innocence Reforms That Avoid Harmful Trade-Offs / Paul G. Cassell
264
15.
Retrospective Justice in the Age of Innocence: The Hard Case of Rape Executions / Margaret Burnham
291
16.
Outbreaks of Injustice: Responding to Systemic Irregularities in the Criminal Justice System / Robert Wicoff
314
17.
Exonerating the Innocent: Habeas for Nonhuman Animals / Steven M. Wise
334
International Arena
355
18.
Global Innocence Movement / Mark Godsey
356
19.
Innocence at War / Erik Luna
379
Index
401