Prosecutors No Longer Have the Corner on Moral Outrage
We can learn from wrongful convictions. Faulty forensic evidence, bias, and a push for finality compromise our ideals of liberty and justice.
Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights
Manifesting Justice by innocence litigator, activist, and founder of the West Virginia Innocence Project, Valena Beety, is both a blueprint for reform and a clarion call to change popular ideas of innocence and freedom.
Drawing on interviews with both innocence advocates and wrongfully convicted women, along with Beety’s own experiences as an expert innocence litigator and a queer woman, Manifesting Justice provides a unique outsider/insider perspective.
The Wrongful Convictions Reader
Fueled by more than 2,000 exonerations of wrongfully convicted men and women, the “innocence revolution” has shaken the criminal justice system to its core. By gathering the leading research, law, and policy analysis into one volume, The Wrongful Convictions Reader explores the core contributing factors to wrongful convictions: false confessions, witness misidentifications, cognitive bias, junk science, police and prosecutorial misconduct, and ineffective assistance of counsel.
Scientific Evidence
Cited by the National Academy of Sciences in its February 2009 report on the nation’s forensic science system as the resource for learning about the latest forensic techniques and scientific concepts used in collecting and evaluating evidence, and by the U.S. Supreme Court in Daubert v. Merrell Dow and, most recently, Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, Scientific Evidence is authored by two of the nation’s foremost authorities on the subject.
