Wrongful Convictions: Cases and Materials, Second Edition
Product ID: 18998730
Wrongful Convictions: Cases and Materials is the first textbook to bring together the law related to the exoneration of innocent people wrongfully convicted of crimes. This exciting area of the law is developing at a rapid pace with an increasing numbers of exonerations of innocent people around the world. The book is designed to give a broad overview of the cases related to the causes of wrongful convictions including false eyewitness testimony, false confessions, ineffective assistance of counsel, police and prosecutorial misconduct, and false forensic evidence. In this second edition, updated cases have been added as well as the topic of clemency. The book is also designed to teach students the legal standards involved in habeas litigation, the parole processes, and post-release compensation. Professor Justin Brooks is the Director and Co-Founder of the California Innocence Project, a law school clinic at California Western School of Law in San Diego devoted to the exoneration of innocent men and women wrongfully incarcerated in the state of California. Over the course of his career he has served as counsel on several high profile criminal cases, and along with his co-counsel and students, he has been successful in exonerating many wrongfully convicted clients. Professor Brooks works extensively throughout Latin America training defense attorneys, prosecutors, judges, and law enforcement. He is a founding board member of the Innocence Network and has launched innocence work in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. He has been named several times as one of the top one hundred lawyers in California by the Los Angeles Daily Journal and has twice won a California Lawyer Magazine Attorney of the Year award for his work exonerating innocent men and women. Review: Cover Has an Odd Texture - Sonny Bono gets hardcore in this 1978 episode of The Love Boat. The song is “Smash It’ and it ain’t bad. [...] Review: Good case selection, less than great editing. - Great case selection and very helpful notes at the end of this section. HOWEVER, this book is clearly just a collection of cases pulled from Westlaw or something with minimal editing. Text size between citations and substantive text is really inconsistent and distracting. The editing of this book leaves a lot to be desired.
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| Customer Reviews | 3.8 out of 5 stars 15 Reviews |
D**N
Cover Has an Odd Texture
Sonny Bono gets hardcore in this 1978 episode of The Love Boat. The song is “Smash It’ and it ain’t bad. [...]
F**T
Good case selection, less than great editing.
Great case selection and very helpful notes at the end of this section. HOWEVER, this book is clearly just a collection of cases pulled from Westlaw or something with minimal editing. Text size between citations and substantive text is really inconsistent and distracting. The editing of this book leaves a lot to be desired.
A**R
Five Stars
it likes a new one.
B**T
Almost a cut & paste from legal web-sites. Almost no insight or analysis
I should have know when I couldn't access a preview of the book that it wasn't worth the $60 price tag. But no, I trusted that this would be more. I was looking forward to getting the book in hand, but once delivered all I got was cut and paste extracts from online (hence the formatting problems that others have complained about). There were a few paragraphs of overview, but I think this was meant to be used ONLY as a textbook in conjunction with the class. The description should have made this clear but it did not. I will be returning this as it is useless to me without analysis and commentary. If I could give this less than zero I would. The onus lies with Amazon to give this a more definitive description as a textbook for this particular course taught in San Diego
B**E
Three Stars
The formatting drives me to insanity.
T**.
The text covers all issues surrounding wrongful convictions and is a wonderful teaching resource
I teach a law school class on Wrongful Convictions and use this as my textbook for the class. The text covers all issues surrounding wrongful convictions and is a wonderful teaching resource. Thank you to Justin Brooks for his hard work on putting this together so we can all teach this all important topic.
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