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And justice for some : an exposé of the lawyers and judges who let dangerous ciminals go free / Wendy Murphy.

by Murphy, Wendy, 1960-

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New York : Sentinel, 2007.

Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip079/2007001919.html

xiii, 272 p. ; 24 cm.

You call this justice? -- Murphy's law, rewritten -- Manufacturing innocence with DNA lies -- Victory through intimidation -- Race baiting -- Winning through payoffs and extortion -- Using delay strategically -- Manipulating the media -- Picking dumb jurors -- Exploiting victims' fears -- Using the cross-fingerpointing maneuver -- Bullying the advocates -- Selling unfair punishment as restorative justice -- Co-opting the public with the"victims' rights charade -- Claiming a suspect passed a polygraph -- Mounting a not-the-criminal-type defense -- Blaming the victim -- Legislating nothingness and confusion -- Calling child pornography harmless -- Inventing imaginary constitutional rights -- Launching political persecutions -- Suing the victim -- Cleaning up the dirt.

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