Scholar and author Scott Christianson has a new book, Innocent: Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases. Scott was one of the participants at the recent symposium on death penalty scholarship at the University at Albany. We have it linked under Books in the right-hand column. Here's information from Amazon.com:
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 also describing how determined prisoners, post-conviction attorneys, advocates, and journalists struggle against tremendous odds to try to win their exonerations.
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