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Here are the stories of innocent men and women-and the system that put them away under the guise of justice. Now updated with new information, Actual Innocencesheds light on "a system that tolerates lying prosecutors, slumbering defense attorneys and sloppy investigators" (Salt Lake Tribune)-revealing the shocking flaws that can derail the legal process and the ways that DNA testing has often shattered so-called solid evidence that condemned American citizens to death.

Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, once lawyers with the Bronx Legal Aid Society, co-founded The Innocence Project, which seeks post-conviction release through DNA testing. They are among the most prominent civil rights attorneys in the U.S.

Jim Dwyer is the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Daily News and author of several other books.

Authors' Note	p. xi
Introduction: Wrong Numbers	p. xiii
An Innocence Project	p. 1
An Invention	p. 45
Seeing Things	p. 53
False Confessions	p. 101
White Coat Fraud	p. 138
Snitch	p. 163
Junk Science	p. 204
Broken Oaths	p. 222
Sleeping Lawyers	p. 237
Race	p. 250
The Death of Innocents	p. 273
Starting Over	p. 289
Lessons	p. 309
Reckonings: An Update	p. 329
A Short List of Reforms to Protect the Innocent	p. 351
DNA Exonerations at a Glance	p. 363
Sources	p. 369
Acknowledgments	p. 389
Index	p. 395
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Actual Innocence : When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make It Right

Actual Innocence : When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make It Right

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