Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right
by Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld and Jim Dwyer is a must-read for anyone curious about wrongful convictions. It is a book that takes a look at the work of the Innocence Project, an organization that defends convicted felons with claims of innocence. The Innocence Project's most notable cases are covered and the causes of wrongful conviction in the United States of America are explained. The book talks about police error, prosecutorial misconduct, poor defense lawyers, jailhouses snitches and faulty eyewitness accounts. It is also pointed out that there are many more people out there who are innocent but who are being denied post-trial DNA testing.The authors are men to be admired. Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld founded the Innocence Project in 1992 and have enabled the exoneration of 241 innocent people in the United States since. Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld are also known for being on the defense team for O.J. Simpson. Jim Dwyer is a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist at the New York Times.
The book is easy to read and very informative. It is depressing. It's scary. It's true and you should read it.
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