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1 online resource (1 audio file (300 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Joe Barrett. |
| Summary |
How can we be proud of a system of justice that often pressures the innocent to plead guilty? How can we claim that justice is equal when we imprison thousands of poor Black men for relatively modest crimes but rarely prosecute rich white executives who commit crimes having far greater impact? How can we applaud the Supreme Court's ever-more-limited view of its duty to combat excesses by the president? The federal judge Jed S. Rakoff, a leading authority on white-collar crime, explores these and other puzzles in Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free, a startling account of our broken legal system. Grounded in Rakoff's twenty-four years as a federal trial judge in New York in addition to the many years he worked as a federal prosecutor and criminal defense lawyer, Rakoff's assessment of our justice system illuminates some of our most urgent legal, social, and political issues: plea deals and class-action lawsuits, corporate impunity and the death penalty, the perils of eyewitness testimony and forensic science, the war on terror and the expanding reach of the executive branch. A fundamental problem, he reveals, is that the judiciary is constraining its own constitutional powers. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Judicial error -- United States.
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False imprisonment -- United States.
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False testimony -- United States.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Barrett, Joe, 1950- narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781696604178 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1696604176 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13972281 |
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