M. Chris Fabricant
Autor de Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 20th Century
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Organizaciones
- Innocence Project
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Akashic Books (1)
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- 116
- Popularidad
- #169,721
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 29
- ISBNs
- 9
Prosecutors fight to use this unreliable testimony and judges are willing to allow it in their trials, not because of its reliability but because it has been allowed in the past. Because of this, many defendants have been wrongfully convicted. In a six year span, in Texas alone DNA evidence proved the actual innocence of 13 of these prisoners.
Do we, as a society, believe that a trial is a search for the truth? Do we believe that it is better for a guilty man to go free than for an innocent man to go to prison? If we truly believe in these concepts, one of the steps we must take is to eliminate junk science from our courtrooms. And that is only the first step in reforming our justice system. As awful as the concept of junk science is, even more horrifying is the amount of time, financial cost and effort it takes to exonerate a prisoner and release him once he is proved innocent, even if that proof is DNA.
Since reading the book, I have done some research of my own and the University of Michigan reports that over 3400 innocent people have been falsely convicted based on reasons such as junk science and expert witness testimony, false confessions, mistaken identification, and law enforcement/prosecutorial bias. Although the book could have used some editing, particularly in the timeline of events, it made such an impact on me that I'm giving it 5 stars.… (más)