Convicted but innocent : wrongful conviction and public policy / C. Ronald Huff, Arye Rattner, Edward Sagarin.
1996
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Title
Convicted but innocent : wrongful conviction and public policy / C. Ronald Huff, Arye Rattner, Edward Sagarin.
Published
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, [1996]
Copyright
©1996
Call Number
KF9756 .H84 1996
ISBN
0803959524 (acid-free paper)
0803959532 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0803959532 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Description
xxiii, 180 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)33245175
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-166) and index.
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Table of Contents
Foreword / Simon Dinitz
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1
With Apologies to the Prisoner
1
Defining the Convicted Innocents
10
Where Doubt Remains
13
Declared Innocent, and Still Incarcerated
16
2
Causes Celebres
21
A Nineteenth-Century Case: The Dreyfus Affair
24
The Scottsboro Boys
28
The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping
29
The Sad Saga of Isidore Zimmerman
32
Randall Dale Adams: Injustice in Dallas
33
"Ivan the Terrible," or a Terrible Case of Mistaken Identity?
46
3
How Could This Have Happened?: The Causes and Prevalence of Wrongful Conviction
53
How Does It Happen?
66
Eyewitness Error
66
Prosecutorial and Police Misconduct and Errors
70
Plea Bargaining
73
Community Pressure for Conviction
75
Inadequacy of Counsel
76
Accusations Against the Innocent by the Guilty
77
Criminal Records
79
Race as a Factor
80
4
What Did They Really See?: The Problems of Eyewitness Identification
83
Psychological Factors
87
Systemic Factors
93
Societal and Cultural Factors
98
5
False Confessions, Miranda Notwithstanding
110
The Bradley Cox Case
123
6
Wrongful Conviction and Public Policy: What Can Be Done?
142
Crime Control Versus Due Process
143
What Is the Meaning of Wrongful Conviction?
146
Reducing the Incidence of Wrongful Conviction
150
Identifying and Exonerating Convicted Innocents
153
Compensating and Reintegrating Convicted Innocents
155
Capital Punishment: The Irreversible Error
160
References
162
Cases
167
Index
169
About the Authors
179