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New Book

By Steve Hall

Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong is the title of a new book University of Virginia Law prof Brandon Garrett.  A news release, "U.Va. Law Professor Brandon Garrett's Book Examines Wrongful Conviction," announces the publication. False confessions, invalid forensic analysis, eyewitness misidentifications and other systemic flaws in the criminal justice system contributed to the wrongful conviction of the first 250 people exonerated by DNA tests, University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett writes in "Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong," published this spring by Harvard University Press.Garrett began by studying the original criminal trial records of the 250 people who were convicted of series crimes and later exonerated...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 24, 2011 (boomark / email).