Convicting the innocent; errors of criminal justice
Title:
Convicting the innocent; errors of criminal justice
Author:
Borchard, Edwin, 1884-1951.
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Publication Information:
New Haven : Yale university press; London : H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1932.
Physical Description:
xxix, 421 pages ; 24cm.
General Note:
Collection of sixty-five cases of erroneous criminal convictions of innocent people, the causes of error being due in the main to mistaken identification, circumstantial evidence, or perjury, or some combination of these. Includes an analysis of the statutes, of European countries providing indemnity for wrongfully convicted and arrested persons, to be used a a basis for American legislation. cf. Pref.
Language:
English
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Format :
Book