Edwin M. Borchard was a pioneer in both identifying the features of the United States' legal system that contribute to the conviction of innocent persons, and advocating for their compensation when exonerated.\nThis compilation includes Borchard's "Convicting The Innocent: Sixty-Five Actual Errors Of Criminal Justice," which was the first book published in the United States that identified key factors contributing to the conviction of innocent persons. Borchard suggested reforms to try and minimize the effect of those factors and the occurrence of a wrongful conviction. Due to the legal system's inertia and resistance to meaningful change, Borchard's analysis of the causes of wrongful convictions, and his suggested reforms, are as relevant today as when "Convicting The Innocent" was published in 1932.\nThis compilation also includes "European Systems Of State Indemnity For Errors Of Criminal Justice," which was the first article published in the U.S. that detailed how deficient indemnification of an exonerated person is in the U.S. compared with European countries. Borchard advocated enactment of legislation that would provide adequate compensation for exonerated persons in the U.S. Borchard's premise is as relevant today as when his article was published in 1913 because the U.S. continues to lag not only European countries, but countries throughout the world in adequately indemnifying exonerated persons. Borchard's article also provides an invaluable resource for understanding the history of indemnifying a wrongful conviction in this country and Europe.\nAlso included in this compilation is Justice Denied magazine's biographical article about Borchard when it named him as an inaugural member of its Wrongful Conviction Hall Of Honor in 2007.\nThis compilation provides today's audience with Edwin Borchard's primary works concerning wrongful convictions. Borchard's writings continue to provide valuable insights into the causes of wrongful convictions and reforms that may help minimize their occurrence, and that the generally inadequate indemnification of exonerated persons in the U.S. has been of concern for more than 100 years.

Edwin M. Borchard - Convicting The Innocent, and State Indemnity For Errors Of Criminal Justice

Sherrer, Hans

Borchard, Edwin Montefiore

Criminal Law

The Justice Institute

Expert evidence is a valuable prosecution technique used to link a person to a crime. However there is a dark side to this technique that can't be ignored: The use of expert evidence as a prosecution tool to falsely implicate an innocent person in a crime. Irregularities involving prosecution expert evidence have occurred since at least 1925 in the United States. Irregularities underlying prosecution expert evidence include substandard work; reliance on unreliable or compromised test procedures; and bias by slanting evidence reports and testimony to favor the prosecution. These practices affect criminal prosecutions in a way that has been known to be prejudicial to innumerable innocent men and women. Yet they are able to occur with impunity because labeling a testing process as scientific typically assures it of a near mystical reverence by judges, jurors and defense lawyers. The same is true of people designated as scientific experts: They are given a hallowed status as interpreters of what is considered to be "the unseen, the indecipherable, or the incomprehensible" to lay persons. Menace To The Innocent exposes that this situation undermines the credibility of the legal process, and proscribes no-nonsense solutions that will dramatically improve the reliability of prosecution expert evidence.

Menace To The Innocent: Insubstantial Expert Evidence Endangers Innocent People Accused Of A Crime

Legal Theory & Systems

Justice Institute, The

Reports about Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, Bagram Air Base, secret CIA prisons, and other detention facilities run by the U.S. outside the country, have raised concerns about the treatment of prisoners in those facilities.Yet their treatment is different only by degree from the treatment of people jailed and imprisoned in the U.S. and other countries. And there is certainly nothing new about the physical and psychological mistreatment of imprisoned people. Brutalization of suspected wrongdoers was elevated to an art form during the middle ages in Europe, and there are credible stories of atrocious treatment of prisoners going back thousands of years.Awareness that the mistreatment of people considered by society to be wrongdoers is pervasive and not the consequence of a few "bad apples," is a necessary first step to exploring options to break that millenium long cycle of violence. Dehumanization Is Not An Option contributes to increasing that awareness.

Dehumanization Is Not An Option: An Inquiry Into The Exercise Of Authority Against Perceived Wrongdoers

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The murder of a homeless man in Las Vegas on July 8, 2001 was unusually vicious. The man was brutally beaten and stabbed, and his penis was amputated. Prime suspects were identified within hours of the murder, but detectives did not investigate them. Instead, weeks later they arrested an 18-year-old woman living 170 miles north of Las Vegas, based on a tipster's third-hand gossip that she might have cut a man's penis during an attempted rape in Las Vegas. That young woman is Kirstin Blaise Lobato. There is no physical, forensic, eyewitness or confession evidence tying her to the crime scene, while many eyewitnesses establish she was in Lincoln County the entire day of the murder. Yet, prosecutors have twice been able to convict Ms. Lobato based on the argument that it is possible she committed the murder. This book tells the story of how in 21st century America the possibility of guilt has been allowed to replace proof beyond a reasonable doubt as the standard for a conviction. This updated second edition includes evidence discovered after the first edition was published in May 2008. That evidence includes significant new forensic entomology and forensic pathology evidence supporting that the victim was murdered during a period of time that the prosecution conceded at Ms. Lobato's trial she was not in Las Vegas -- which means she could not have committed the crime.

Kirstin Blaise Lobato's Unreasonable Conviction: Possibility of Guilt Replaces Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt - Second Edition

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Edwin M. Borchard - Convicting The Innocent, and State Indemnity For Errors Of Criminal Justice

Menace To The Innocent: Insubstantial Expert Evidence Endangers Innocent People Accused Of A Crime

Dehumanization Is Not An Option: An Inquiry Into The Exercise Of Authority Against Perceived Wrongdoers

Kirstin Blaise Lobato's Unreasonable Conviction: Possibility of Guilt Replaces Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt - Second Edition