The Supreme Court on trial : how the American justice system sacrifices innocent defendants / George C. Thomas III.
"The chief mandate of the criminal justice system is not to prosecute the guilty but to safeguard the innocent from wrongful convictions; with this startling assertion, legal scholar George Thomas launches his critique of the U.S. system and its emphasis on procedure at the expense of true just...
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Innocence Ignored
- 2. The Fundamental Value of Due Process
- 3. In the Beginning: God, Juries, and God Again
- 4. Truth from Juries: William the Conqueror, Henry II, and the Catholic Church
- 5. Truth from Juries: America before the Twentieth Century
- 6. In God's Name: Is That the Man?
- 7. Truth from Procedure: The Supreme Court Tries a New Tack
- 8. Looking for Truth in Unexpected Places
- 9. The Hitch-hiker's Guide to Protecting Innocence.