RT Article
T1 Wrong-person error in capital cases
JF The Elgar companion to capital punishment and society
SP 180
OP 199
A1 Liebman, James S.
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1936241927
AB A death verdict may be erroneous as a matter of substance (the defendant did not satisfy the conditions for conviction of murder or for the death penalty) or procedure (the process the state used to determine what the defendant did violates legal rules designed to assure factually correct verdicts). Substantive error can infect many elements of the guilt determination, of which “wrong-person” error is one. Erroneous death verdicts may be discovered before or after the individual is executed, or not at all. Focusing on capital, substantive, wrong-person errors, this chapter assesses how frequently they occur and are discovered, their implications for our capital justice system, why they occur, and what can be done to avoid them.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 193-199
SN 9781803929149
K1 Innocence
K1 Legal error
K1 Exoneration
K1 Ineffective assistance of counsel
K1 Appelas
K1 Habeas Corpus
DO 10.4337/9781803929156.00021