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Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free : and other paradoxes of our broken legal system
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Physical Description
193 pages ; 22 cm
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"--
Notes
Includes index.
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.