Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free, and other paradoxes of our broken legal system, Jed S. Rakoff
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Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free, and other paradoxes of our broken legal system, Jed S. Rakoff
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non fiction
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Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free
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Jed S. Rakoff
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and other paradoxes of our broken legal system
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"A senior federal judge's incisive, unsettling exploration of some of the paradoxes that the define the judiciary today: among them, why innocent people plead guilty, why high-level executives aren't prosecuted, why you won't get your day in court, and why the judiciary is curtailing its own constitutionally mandated power"--, Provided by publisher
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The scourge of mass incarceration -- Why innocent people plead guilty -- Why eyewitness testimony is so often wrong -- Will the death penalty ever die? -- The failures, and future, of forensic science -- Brain science and the law : uncomfortable bedfellows -- Why high-level executives are exempt from prosecution -- Justice deferred is justice denied -- The shrinkage of legal oversight -- The War on Terror's war on law -- The Supreme Court's undue subservience to the executive branch -- Don't count on the courts -- You won't get your day in court
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