Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted

Scheck, Barry; Neufeld, Peter; Dwyer, Jim

ISBN 10: 038549341X / ISBN 13: 9780385493413

Published by Doubleday, New York, NY, 2000

About this Item

"At the Innocence Project, Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld have helped to free thirty-seven wrongly convicted people, and have taken up the cause of hundreds more. Pulitzer Prize winning columnest Jim Dwyer has been covering innocence cases for a decade. In Actual Innocence Scheck, Neufeld and Dwyer relate the harrowing stories of ten innocent men.and tell of the heroic efforts to free them." Appendices, Sources, Index. Published @ $24.95.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted
• Publisher: Doubleday, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 038549341X
• ISBN 13: 9780385493413
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Constitution & Law

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Synopsis

Ten nightmarish true tales of people falsely accused detail the slovenly police work, corruption, errant witnesses, and other flaws in the criminal justice system that landed these people in prison or on death row. Tour.

About the Author

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Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld and Jim Dwyer are among the United States' leading experts on innocence issues. Scheck and Neufeld founded and direct the Innocence Project, which seeks postconviction release through DNA testing. Perhaps the most prominent civil rights attorneys in the country, both are in private practice in New York City. Dwyer, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Daily News, began inquiring into wrongful convictions in 1992. He is also the author of Subway Lives: 24 Hours in the Life of the New York City Subway, and co-author of Two Seconds Under the World, an account of the World Trade Center bombing.