Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty go Free : : and Other Paradoxes of our Broken Legal System
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Includes index.
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.
"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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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Year Published: 2021
Description: 193 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780374289997
0374289999
SUBJECTS
Judicial error -- United States.
False imprisonment -- United States.
False testimony -- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.