TY  - BOOK
AU  - Covey,Russell D.
AU  - Beety,Valena E.
TI  - The wrongful convictions reader
SN  - 9781531023874
AV  - KF 9756 .W765 2023
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Durham, North Carolina
PB  - Carolina Academic Press, LLC
KW  - Judicial error
KW  - United States
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - Corrupt practices
KW  - Criminal investigation
KW  - Forensic sciences
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Prologue to wrongful convictions -- Defining innocence and miscarriages of justice -- Overview of the causes of wrongful convictions -- The innocence "myth" and the costs of preventing wrongful convictions -- Eyewitness misidentifications -- False confessions -- Scientific standards, statistical evidence, and the future of forensic science -- DNA and junk science -- Informants and snitches -- Police and prosecutorial misconduct -- Incompetent lawyering -- Cognitive bias and tunnel vision -- Guilty pleas, pretrial procedure, and innocence -- Appellate and post-conviction review of innocence : the cases -- Appellate and post-conviction review of innocence : an assessment -- Intersections : race, gender, sexual orientation and innocence -- Reconsidering innocence : rethinking causes and addressing consequences -- Race and wrongful convictions
N2  - "Fueled by more than 2,000 exonerations of wrongfully convicted men and women, the "innocence revolution" has shaken the criminal justice system to its core. By gathering the leading research, law, and policy analysis into one volume, The Wrongful Convictions Reader explores the core contributing factors to wrongful convictions: false confessions, witness misidentifications, cognitive bias, junk science, police and prosecutorial misconduct, racial bias, and ineffective assistance of counsel. Each chapter is divided into three sections: Readings Current Law Overview-which summarizes the key cases in the area, and Legal Materials, Exercises, and Media-which provides relevant experiential activities. Examples from the Legal Materials, Exercises, and Media sections include: Recommended listening and viewing: timed excerpts from podcast episodes, films, and television clips Oral advocacy exercises: mock bail arguments, parole hearings, testimony before the state legislature, presentations to the state rules committee, appellate oral arguments Written advocacy exercises: practice motions and comparing state statutes Issue spotting exercises: transcripts from interrogations and in-court testimony Review: reflective essays, short answer questions, and true/false questions Team exercises: plea negotiations Discussion prompts Actual wrongful conviction case documents This combination of materials makes the book more than a mere "reader" and makes it ideal for doctrinal as well as experiential courses"--
ER  -