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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Rakoff, Jed S., author.     Subjects     Judicial error -- United States.     False imprisonment -- United States.     False testimony -- United States.     Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Rakoff, Jed S., author.       by title:      Why the innocent ple...         MARC Display

Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free : and other paradoxes of our broken legal system / Jed S. Rakoff. by 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 Edition:  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. Requests:  0 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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 345.0122 Ra Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 345.0122 Rakoff Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Adult Nonfiction 345.0122 Ra Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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