RT Book
T1 Prosecution complex: America's race to convict and its impact on the innocent
A2 Medwed, Daniel S.
LA English
PP New York
PB New York University Press
YR 2012
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1654661759
AB American prosecutors are asked to play two roles within the criminal justice system: they are supposed to be ministers of justice whose only goals are to ensure fair trials, whatever the outcomes of those trials might be--and they are also advocates of the government whose success rates are measured by how many convictions they get. Because of this second role, sometimes prosecutors suppress evidence in order to establish a defendant's guilt and safeguard that conviction over time. Daniel S. Medwed, a recognized authority on wrongful convictions, has wrestled with these issues for nearly fifte
NO Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
CN KF9640
SN 978-0-8147-9625-2
SN 0-8147-9625-7
SN 978-0-8147-6435-0
SN 0-8147-6435-5
K1 Prosecutorial misconduct : United States
K1 Judicial error : United States : United States
K1 Judicial error : United States
K1 LAW ; Criminal Law ; General
K1 Judicial error
K1 Prosecutorial misconduct
K1 United States
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