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Wrongfully convicted: The innocent in Canada. [Wetaskiwin, Alta.]: Quagmire Press, 2007.

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Eggers, Dave, Neil Berman, and Lola Vollen. Surviving justice: America's wrongfully convicted and exonerated. 3rd ed. San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2008.

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Connecticut. Advisory Commission on Wrongful Convictions. Report of the Advisory Commission on Wrongful Convictions, pursuant to Public Act 08-143, an Act Concerning the Compensation of Wrongfully Convicted and Incarcerated Persons, the Duties and Duration of the Sentencing Task Force and the Preparation of Racial and Ethnic Impact Statements. Hartford: State of Connecticut, Judicial Branch, External Affairs Division, 2009.

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Huff, C. Ronald. Convicted but innocent: Wrongful conviction and public policy. Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE Publications, 1996.

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Hemphill, Dr Danarius M. Wrongfully Convicted: Walking in Truth & Freedom. November Media Publishing & Consulting Firm, 2018.

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(Compiler), Dave Eggers, Lola Vollen (Compiler), and Scott Turow (Introduction), eds. Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated. McSweeney's, 2005.

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Jablonski, Noria, Scott Turow, Dave Eggers, Neil Berman, Dominic Luxford, and Lola Vollen. Surviving justice: America's wrongfully convicted and exonerated. 2017.

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Lola, Vollen, and Eggers Dave, eds. Surviving justice: America's wrongfully convicted and exonerated. San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2005.

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Anatomy of innocence: Testimonies of the wrongfully convicted. Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017.

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Ciolino, Paul J. In The Company of Giants: The Ultimate Investigation Guide for Legal Professionals, Activists, Journalists & the Wrongfully Convicted. iUniverse, Inc., 2005.

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Ciolino, Paul J. In The Company of Giants: The Ultimate Investigation Guide for Legal Professionals, Activists, Journalists & the Wrongfully Convicted. iUniverse, Inc., 2005.

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Turow, Scott. Silent Witness. Edited by Henry Erlich, Eric Stover, and Thomas J. White. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190909444.001.0001.

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Forensic DNA evidence has helped convict the guilty, exonerate the wrongfully convicted, identify victims of genocide, and reunite families torn apart by war and repressive regimes. Yet many of the scientific, legal, and ethical concepts that underpin forensic DNA evidence remain unclear to the general public; judges; prosecutors; defense attorneys; and students of law, forensic sciences, ethics, and genetics. This book examines the history and development of DNA forensics; its applications in the courtroom and humanitarian settings; and the relevant scientific, legal, and psychosocial issues. It describes the DNA technology used to compare the genetic profile of a crime scene sample to that of a suspect, as well as the statistical interpretation of a match. It also reviews how databases can be searched to identify suspects and how DNA evidence can be used to exonerate the wrongfully convicted. Recent developments in DNA technology are reviewed, as are strategies for analyzing samples with multiple contributors. The book recounts how the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo searched for children kidnapped during military rule in Argentina, as well as more recent efforts to locate missing children in El Salvador. Other chapters examine the role that DNA forensics played in the identification of victims of genocide in Bosnia and of terrorism in the post-9/11 era. Social anthropologists, legal scholars, and scientists explore current applications of DNA analysis in human trafficking and mass catastrophes; border policies affecting immigration; and the ethical issues associated with privacy, informed consent, and the potential misuse of genetic data.

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Gardner, Erle Stanley. Court of Last Resort: The True Story of a Team of Crime Experts Who Fought to Save the Wrongfully Convicted. Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2017.

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Hoyle, Carolyn, and Mai Sato. Reasons to Doubt. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794578.001.0001.

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This book reveals what happens to applications for post-conviction review when those in England and Wales who consider themselves to have been wrongfully convicted, and have exhausted direct appeal processes, apply to have their case assessed by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. It presents the findings of the first thorough empirical study of decision-making and the use of discretion within the Commission. It shows how the Commission exercises its discretionary powers in identifying and investigating possible wrongful convictions for rehearing by the Court of Appeal. The research it draws on — a three year empirical study — comprises a mixed-method approach of quantitative and qualitative analysis of case files and aggregate data, as well as interviews with decision makers and observations of committee meetings to fully grasp the workings of the organisation from a socio-legal perspective and to understand how discretion operates at the individual and institutional level.

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Becker, Steven W. Post-Conviction DNA Testing, Actual Innocence, and Cold Cases. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190848194.003.0002.

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The article addresses the dramatic impact that post-conviction DNA testing has had on the criminal justice system in the United States, not only in effecting the release of innocent prisoners who have been wrongfully convicted but also with respect to the perception of the court system itself in terms of the seeming tension between seeking justice and honoring the finality of judgments. An overview of post-conviction DNA testing statutes in the United States is provided, including a description of the elements generally required to secure such testing, a survey and comparison of various provisions in state statutes, and a brief treatment of innocence projects. The article concludes with a detailed discussion of three DNA cases personally litigated by the author—two criminal cases, one involving a murder and the other a rape, and one forty-year-old cold case—with the purpose of providing real-life guidance from a practitioner’s perspective.

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Johnson, Matthew Barry. Wrongful Conviction in Sexual Assault. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780190653057.001.0001.

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Wrongful Conviction in Sexual Assault: Stranger Rape, Acquaintance Rape, and Intra-Familial Child Sexual Assaults examines the phenomenon of innocent defendants who are convicted of rape and related sexual offenses. It presents findings that indicate sexual offenses are highly overrepresented among confirmed wrongful convictions. Drawing from Innocence Project and National Registry of Exoneration data and supplemented by social science and historical sources, the investigation explores various processes that led to wrongful conviction, distinguishing the differential risk of wrongful conviction among stranger rape, acquaintance rape, and intra-familial child sexual assault. The book includes reference to established research on false confessions, eyewitness misidentification, erroneous expert and informant testimony, DNA evidence, racial bias, and “manufactured” evidence. The work also introduces new terms and concepts (such as “black box” investigation methods, the stranger rape thesis, the moral outrage–moral correction process, “spontaneous misidentification,” victim status paths, the differential investigation challenge related to capable vs. incapacitated rape victims, and the role of serial sexual offending in wrongful conviction) to clarify and illustrate unique aspects of wrongful conviction in sexual assault.

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Tonry, Michael. Doing Justice, Preventing Crime. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195320503.001.0001.

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In the 2020s, no informed person disagrees that punishment policies and practices in the United States are unprincipled, chaotic, and much too often unjust. The financial costs are enormous. The moral cost is greater: countless individual injustices; mass incarceration; the world’s highest imprisonment rate; extreme disparities, especially affecting members of racial and ethnic minority groups; high rates of wrongful conviction; assembly-line case processing; and a general absence of respectful consideration of offenders’ interests, circumstances, and needs. The main ideas in this book about doing justice and preventing crime are simple: Treat people charged with and convicted of crimes justly, fairly, and even-handedly, as anyone would want done for themselves or their children. Take sympathetic account of the circumstances of peoples’ lives. Punish no one more severely than he or she deserves. Those propositions are implicit in the rule of law and its requirement that the human dignity of every person be respected. Three major structural changes are needed. First, selection of judges and prosecutors, and their day-to-day work, must be insulated from political influence. Second, mandatory minimum sentence, three-strikes, life without parole, truth in sentencing, and similar laws must be repealed. Third, correctional and prosecution systems must be centralized in unified state agencies.

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Magnarella, Paul J. Black Panther in Exile. University Press of Florida, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066394.001.0001.

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In the tumultuous year after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, 29-year-old Pete O’Neal became inspired by reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X and founded the Kansas City branch of the Black Panther Party (BPP). The same year, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declared the BPP was the “greatest threat to the internal security of the country.” This book is the gripping story of O’Neal, one of the influential members of the movement, who now lives in Africa—unable to return to the United States but refusing to renounce his past. Arrested in 1969 and convicted for transporting a shotgun across state lines, O’Neal was free on bail pending his appeal when Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the BPP, was assassinated by the police. O’Neal and his wife fled the U.S. for Algiers. Eventually they settled in Tanzania, where they continue the social justice work of the Panthers through community and agricultural programs and host study-abroad programs for American students. Paul Magnarella—a veteran of the United Nations Criminal Tribunals and O’Neal’s attorney during his appeals process from 1997–2001—describes his unsuccessful attempts to overturn what he argues was a wrongful conviction. He lucidly reviews the evidence of judicial errors, the prosecution’s use of a paid informant as a witness, perjury by both the prosecution’s key witness and a federal agent, as well as other constitutional violations. He demonstrates how O’Neal was denied justice during the height of the COINTELPRO assault on black activists in the U.S.

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