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The Wrongful Convictions Reader
Fueled by more than 2,000 exonerations of wrongfully convicted men and women, the "innocence revolution" has shaken the criminal justice system to its core. By gathering the leading research, law, and policy analysis into one volume, The Wrongful Convictions Reader explores the core contributing factors to wrongful false confessions, witness misidentifications, cognitive bias, junk science, police and prosecutorial misconduct, racial bias, and ineffective assistance of counsel.
Each chapter is divided into three
Readings Current Law Overview―which summarizes the key cases in the area, and Legal Materials, Exercises, and Media―which provides relevant experiential activities. Examples from the Legal Materials, Exercises, and Media sections
Recommended listening and timed excerpts from podcast episodes, films, and television clips Oral advocacy mock bail arguments, parole hearings, testimony before the state legislature, presentations to the state rules committee, appellate oral arguments Written advocacy practice motions and comparing state statutes Issue spotting transcripts from interrogations and in-court testimony reflective essays, short answer questions, and true/false questions Team plea negotiations Discussion prompts Actual wrongful conviction case documents This combination of materials makes the book more than a mere "reader" and makes it ideal for doctrinal as well as experiential courses.
A set of 392 PowerPoint slides, as well as other teaching materials, is available upon adoption of this book. Click here to view a sample PowerPoint presentation. If you are a professor using this book for a class, please contact Rachael Meier at remeier@cap-press.com to request your materials.
Each chapter is divided into three
Readings Current Law Overview―which summarizes the key cases in the area, and Legal Materials, Exercises, and Media―which provides relevant experiential activities. Examples from the Legal Materials, Exercises, and Media sections
Recommended listening and timed excerpts from podcast episodes, films, and television clips Oral advocacy mock bail arguments, parole hearings, testimony before the state legislature, presentations to the state rules committee, appellate oral arguments Written advocacy practice motions and comparing state statutes Issue spotting transcripts from interrogations and in-court testimony reflective essays, short answer questions, and true/false questions Team plea negotiations Discussion prompts Actual wrongful conviction case documents This combination of materials makes the book more than a mere "reader" and makes it ideal for doctrinal as well as experiential courses.
A set of 392 PowerPoint slides, as well as other teaching materials, is available upon adoption of this book. Click here to view a sample PowerPoint presentation. If you are a professor using this book for a class, please contact Rachael Meier at remeier@cap-press.com to request your materials.
666 pages, Paperback
Published November 1, 2018
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December 15, 2022
I recommend this book as background to reporters trying to put individual cases of wrongful conviction into perspective. The instances of corrupt prosecutors, police and judges failing to act to bring speedy resolution to cases is more commonplace than one might expect.
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