Reviews | July 24, 2012
The Literature of Wrongful Conviction
Steve Weinberg
Featuring reviews of:
- Convicting the Innocent: Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice by Edwin M. Borchard (1932)
- The Court of Last Resort by Erle Stanley Gardner (1954)
- The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham (2006)
- The Confession: A Novel by John Grisham (2010)
- False Justice: Eight Myths That Convict the Innocent by Jim Petro and Nancy Petro (2010)
- Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong by Brandon L. Garrett (2011)
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