False Justice – Eight myths that convict the innocent
What happened to innocent until proven guilty?
By Jim Petro and Nancy Petro
Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro—a former prosecutor and Republican pro-death-penalty state legislator—was not on track to become a pro bono lawyer for the Innocence Project. His unlikely journey of awakening to wrongful criminal conviction is engagingly presented in False Justice - Eight Myths that Convict the Innocent. The book shares Petro’s frightening discovery: The US justice system and justice systems across the globe convict the innocent far more frequently than most imagine, and these tragic, costly errors cannot be written off as unavoidable human error. False Justice’s message is that we can and must do better.
This book takes the reader inside actual criminal cases, summarizes extensive research on the causes and consequences of wrongful conviction, and exposes eight common myths that inspire false confidence in the justice system while undermining reform.
False Justice will change the way you view criminal justice and includes an extensive list of web links to wrongful conviction sources across the globe.
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To be published by Routledge: July 2014.
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