Thursday, April 14, 2011

How the Innocent Get Convicted

How the Innocent Get Convicted

Reason Magazine ^ | 04/14/2011 | Radley Balko

Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2011 6:10:20 PM by The Magical Mischief Tour

University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett has a new book out called Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong. Over at Slate, he looks at two causes of wrongful convictions, false confessions and bad eyewitness testimony and makes some pretty simple suggestions for reform.
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