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Rakoff, Jed S., author.
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Judicial error -- United States.
False imprisonment -- United States.
False testimony -- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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Why the innocent ple...
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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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Rakoff, Jed S., author.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Subjects
Judicial error -- United States.
False imprisonment -- United States.
False testimony -- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
ISBN:
9780374289997 (hardcover) :
0374289999 (hardcover) :
Description:
193 pages ; 22 cm
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First edition.
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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"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"--
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Hawaii State Library
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345.0122 Ra
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Adult Nonfiction
345.0122 Rakoff
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