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Actual innocence : five days to execution and other dispatches from the wrongly convicted
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New York : Doubleday, ©2000., New York : Doubleday, 2000.
Edition
First edition.
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xvii, 297 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Canon City Public Library - NONFICTION | 347.73 SCH | On Shelf |
| Fowler Public Library - NONFICTION | 364.1 Dwyer | On Shelf |
| Heginbotham Holyoke Library - NONFICTION | 347.73 DWY | On Shelf |
| Weld School - Valley High Library - NONFICTION | 347.7 DWY | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Doubleday, ©2000., New York : Doubleday, 2000.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
A nightmare from a thousand B-movies: a horrible crime is committed in your neighborhood, and the police knock at your door. A witness swears you are the perpetrator; you have no alibi, and no one believes your protestations of innocence. You're convicted, sentenced to hard time in maximum security, or even death row, where you await the executioner's needle
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Tragically, this is no movie script but reality for hundreds of American citizens. Our criminal justice system is broken, and people from all walks of life have been destroyed by its failures. But science and a group of incredibly dedicated crusaders are working to repair the damage
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In the last ten years, DNA testing has uncovered stone-cold proof that sixty-five completely innocent people have been sent to prison and death row. But even in cases where there is physical evidence, the criminal justice system frees prisoners only after a torturous legal process. Incredibly, according to many trial judges, "actual innocence" is not grounds for release from prison
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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 columnist 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--convicted by sloppy police work, corrupt prosecutors, jailhouse snitches, mistaken eyewitnesses, and other all-too-common flaws of the trial system--and tell of the heroic efforts to free them
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Dwyer, J., Neufeld, P., & Scheck, B. (2000). Actual innocence: five days to execution and other dispatches from the wrongly convicted (First edition.). Doubleday.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dwyer, Jim, 1957-, Peter Neufeld and Barry. Scheck. 2000. Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted. Doubleday.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dwyer, Jim, 1957-, Peter Neufeld and Barry. Scheck. Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted Doubleday, 2000.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Dwyer, Jim, Peter Neufeld, and Barry Scheck. Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted First edition., Doubleday, 2000.
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