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Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free : and other paradoxes of our broken legal system

Title
Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free : and other paradoxes of our broken legal system / Jed S. Rakoff.
Author
Rakoff, Jed S.
Publication
  • New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
  • ©2021

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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"--
Subject
  • Judicial error > United States
  • False imprisonment > United States
  • False testimony > United States
  • Criminal justice, Administration of > United States
  • LAW / General
  • Criminal justice, Administration of
  • False imprisonment
  • False testimony
  • Judicial error
  • United States
Genre/Form
Informational works.
Note
  • 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.
Call Number
JFD 21-2663
ISBN
  • 9780374289997
  • 0374289999
LCCN
2020043848
OCLC
1153550311
Author
Rakoff, Jed S., author.
Title
Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free : and other paradoxes of our broken legal system / Jed S. Rakoff.
Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Research Call Number
JFD 21-2663
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