| Description |
193 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
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. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| 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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| ISBN |
9780374289997 (hardcover) |
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