Innocent: Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases

by Scott Christianson

Book Overview

Innocent graphically documents forty-two recent criminal cases to find evidence of shocking miscarriages of justice, especially in murder cases. Based upon interviews with more than 200 people and reviews of hundreds internal case files, court records, smoking-gun memoranda, and other documents, Scott Christianson gets inside the legal cases, revealing the mistakes, abuses, and underlying factors that led to miscarriages of justice, while...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814716342
• ISBN13: 9780814716342
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"