Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free: 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"--
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Rakoff, J. S. (2021). Why the innocent plead guilty and the guilty go free: and other paradoxes of our broken legal system. First edition. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Rakoff, Jed S.. 2021. Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Rakoff, Jed S., Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
MLA Citation (style guide)Rakoff, Jed S.. Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free: And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System. First edition. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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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