Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free : and other paradoxes of our broken legal system
/ Jed S. Rakoff
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2021
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First edition.
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| Location | Call No. | Status | Note | URL |
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| Enfield, Main Library - New Materials | 345.73 RAK | Check Shelf | ||
| Mansfield, Main Library - Adult New Nonfiction | 345.73 RAKOFF | Check Shelf | ||
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First edition.
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| Description |
193 pages ; 22 cm
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Includes index.
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| Contents |
The scourge of mass incarceration -- Why innocent people plead guilty -- Why eyewitness testimony is so often wrong -- Will the death penalty ever die? -- The failures, and future, of forensic science -- Brain science and the law : uncomfortable bedfellows -- Why high-level executives are exempt from prosecution -- Justice deferred is justice denied -- The shrinkage of legal oversight -- The War on Terror's war on law -- The Supreme Court's undue subservience to the executive branch -- Don't count on the courts -- You won't get your day in court.
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| Summary |
"A senior federal judge's incisive, unsettling exploration of some of the paradoxes that the define the judiciary today: among them, why innocent people plead guilty, why high-level executives aren't prosecuted, why you won't get your day in court, and why the judiciary is curtailing its own constitutionally mandated power"-- Provided by publisher.
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9780374289997 (hardcover)
0374289999 (hardcover)
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