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Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free : and other paradoxes of our broken legal system

text Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free : and other paradoxes of our broken legal system

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... Read more
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 b... Read more
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193 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 345.73 RAK in Adult Non-fiction Reshelving

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