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Author:   Sarah Lucy Cooper
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.362kg
ISBN:  

9781138249110

ISBN 10:   1138249114
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   09 September 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part I The Rise of the Innocence Movement in America; Chapter 1 Innocence Found, Keith A. Findley; Chapter 2 The Innocence Network, Jacqueline McMurtrie; Part II How Are Innocent People Convicted? Common Causes of Wrongful Convictions; Chapter 3 Eyewitnesses and Erroneous Convictions, Jules Epstein; Chapter 4 Disputed Interrogation Techniques in America, Deborah Davis, Richard A. Leo, Michael J. Williams; Chapter 5 Innocence and the Suppression of Exculpatory Evidence by Prosecutors, Lissa Griffin; Chapter 6 The Two-Legged Stool, Carrie Leonetti; Part III Reality Bites; Chapter 7 The Emerging Role of Innocence Lawyer and the Need for Role-Differentiated Standards of Professional Conduct, D. Michael Risinger, Lesley C. Risinger; Chapter 8 When Finality and Innocence Collide, Carrie Sperling; Chapter 9 Narrowing the Construction of “Innocence”, Francine Banner; Part IV Innocence Reform; Chapter 10 Towards a Theory of Innocence Policy Reform, Nancy Marion, Marvin Zalman; Chapter 11 Innocence Commissions in America, Sarah Lucy Cooper;

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'Professor Cooper and her colleagues have assembled America's Hall of Fame of advocates for identifying the causes of wrongful convictions. Now judges, defense lawyers and - most of all - prosecutors can find in one place the roadmap that might help us more unerringly to convict the guilty and to free the innocent from our prisons. To whatever extent we advance this goal, we will all owe a great debt of gratitude to the authors of this fine book.' Larry A. Hammond, Osborn Maledon, USA 'These fine writers - scholars, experts, and advocates - provide a rich interdisciplinary analysis of the innocence movement and the fundamental ways it has changed and will continue to transform the American criminal justice system. Anyone who cares about miscarriages of justice and thinks critically about the system as a whole will find this collection to be a provocative, insightful, and valuable resource.' Peter J. Neufeld and Barry C. Scheck, the Innocence Project, USA 'With contributions from many of the nation's leading scholars on wrongful convictions, Controversies in Innocence Cases in America is a thoughtful and wide-ranging treatment of the topic and a major addition to the academic literature. Well-done!' Daniel S. Medwed, Northeastern University School of Law, USA 'An excellent anthology which focuses on all the major problems associated with wrongful conviction. The authors are well qualified in the subject they write about - the book's organization is clear and its findings convincing. We need more books like this in the future in order to bring to light the many mistakes that are made in determining guilt in our criminal justice system.' Mark Pogrebin, University of Colorado Denver, USA '...a nice addition to the scholarly literature, with offerings from some of the finest academics in the field... does what any good edited collection should do - and more. It adds to the scholarly conversation in the field; contains chapters that differ with

Author Information

Sarah Lucy Cooper is a Senior Lecturer in Law and founding member of the Centre for American Legal Studies at Birmingham City University in the UK where her teaching and research focus on English and American criminal procedure, practice and reform. She is a barrister and Lord Denning Scholar of the Bar of England and Wales, and a pro bono academic for Amicus. Sarah is a Fellow at the Arizona Justice Project - a non-profit organisation that considers claims of ’innocence’ and ’manifest injustice’ from Arizona inmates. In 2012, her work on Bill Macumber’s case was documented by Barry Siegel in his book, Manifest Injustice: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers who Fought for his Freedom. Sarah has published and presented her scholarship in Europe and the USA, and was recently shortlisted for Birmingham Law Society’s 2012 Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year award and a 2013 Extra Mile Award.

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