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Title

Convicting the innocent : the story of a murder, a false confession, and the struggle to free a "wrong man" / edited by Donald S. Connery.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Brookline Books, c1996.

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Additional Authors

Connery, Donald S.

Description

xviii, 220 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Criminal justice, Administration of > Manchester > Case studies
• False imprisonment > Manchester > Case studies
• Homicide > Manchester > Case studies
• Lapointe, Richard, 1946-
• People with mental disabilities > Case studies. > Manchester
• People with mental disabilities and crime > Manchester > Case studies
• Prisoners > Case studies. > Manchester

Genre/Form

Case studies.

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain
• committed to retain

Contents

• Reports Of A Wrongful Conviction -- The Richard Lapointe Case Chronology -- Reasonable Doubt: Richard Lapointe, Prisoner #184163, Is Inarticulate and Bumbling. But Is He Really A Murderer? Tom Condon Doesn't Think So / Tom Condon -- Justice Unserved? Connecticut is About to Witness the Appeal of Another Murder Conviction Based on a Questionable Confession / Donald S. Connery -- Lying Accepted Investigative Tool: But Deception Throws Doubts on Confessions, Investigators' Credibility / Alex Wood -- Without Tape, Confession Can Be Unassailable / Alex Wood -- How Richard Lapointe Got His Friends And Why He Needs Them / Robert Perske -- "Convicting The Innocent": The Public Forum -- Taking a Stand / Margaret Dignoti -- Richard Lapointe: A Good Life Destroyed / Robert Perske -- Abuse of Power, Arrogance of Power / Donald Connery -- False Confessions and Other Follies / Hugo Adam Bedau, Constance Putnam -- When Will It Ever End? / Peter Reilly -- Even Galileo Confessed / Arthur Miller --^
• "I'm Guilty If You Say So" / Richard Ofshe -- The Ben Miller Frame-Up / John R. Williams -- The Reasons for "Wrong-Man" Cases / Kate Germond -- Why Johnny Lee Wilson Went to Prison / Michael Atchison, Denis W. Keyes -- The 22-Year Ordeal of Mike Pardue / E. Barry Johnson, Becky Pardue -- There Is More to Intelligence Than IQ / Stephen Greenspan -- Discussants / Donald Connery [and others] -- Reports Of A Quest For Justice -- For Many, Echoes Of An Injustice In Connecticut: Convicted Slayer's Backers Say His Confession, Like One 20 Years Ago, Was Coerced / Jonathan Rabinovitz -- Lapointe Case Raises Troubling Questions: A Fair Judicial Shake for "Limited" People? / Kathleen Megan -- Easy Confessions Make Tough Law: A Convicted Murderer Tries to Persuade the State Supreme Court That His 'Dependent Personality' Made Him Falsely Admit the Crime / Paul Frisman -- A Little Bit Of Plastic Could Protect A Lot Of Rights / Paul Frisman --^
• Prosecutors Duck Fair Questions On Lapointe And False Confessions / Chris Powell -- Freedom For Johnny Lee Wilson and Rolando Cruz: The Fight for Richard Lapoint Goes On -- Two Injustices Suddenly Corrected -- Statement by Governor Mel Carnahan: Re: Johnny Lee Wilson / Office of the Governor, State of Missouri, Jefferson City, Missouri -- Innocent, and Free At Last: A Missouri Case Shows How the Retarded Get Railroaded in Court -- The Nightmare Ends for Rolando Cruz: Illinois Man, On Death Row for 11 Years, Set Free After Retrial.

ISBN

1571290214 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^95049419^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library