Research Guides: Ohio Innocence Project Student Research Guide (IRTS-7076): Wrongful Convictions

Wrongful Convictions

Below are selected books on wrongful convictions available in the Law Library. You can also find books on wrongful conviction in other UC and Ohio libraries as well.

Innocent: Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases by Scott Christianson
Call Number: Law Morgan KF9756 .C49 2004

ISBN: 0814716342

Publication Date: 2004-02-01

Innocent graphically documents forty-two recent criminal cases to find evidence, revealing the mistakes, abuses, and underlying factors that led to miscarriages of justice, while also describing how determined prisoners, post-conviction attorneys, advocates, and journalists struggle against tremendous odds to try to win their exonerations.
Actual Innocence by Barry Scheck; Peter Neufeld; Jim Dwyer
Call Number: Law Stacks KF9756 .D98 2000

ISBN: 038549341X

Publication Date: 2000-02-15

Extraordinarily powerful stories of ordinary people locked up for crimes they did not commit, and how they were freed against great odds.
Presumed Guilty: When Innocent People Are Wrongfully Convicted by Martin D. Yant
Call Number: Law Morgan KF9756 .Y36 1991

ISBN: 0879756438

Publication Date: 1991-03-01

Presumed Guilty is about thousands of innocent Americans who each year are convicted of serious crimes they did not commit. Many are convicted of crimes that did not even occur. Journalist Martin Yant vividly and dramatically explains the process by which American justice is miscarried, providing carefully researched details about more than 100 wrongful convictions.
The Decline of the Death Penalty and the Discovery of Innocence by Frank R. Baumgartner; Suzanna L. De Boef; Amber E. Boydstun
Call Number: Law Stacks KF9227.C2 B38 2008

ISBN: 9780521887342

Publication Date: 2008-01-14

The discovery of innocence, documented in this 2008 book through painstaking analyses of media coverage and with newly developed methods, has led to historic shifts in public opinion and to a sharp decline in use of the death penalty by juries across the country. A social cascade, starting with legal clinics and innocence projects, has snowballed into a national phenomenon that may spell the end of the death penalty in America.
Dead Wrong: Violence, Vengeance, and the Victims of Capital Punishment by Richard A. Stack; Rob Warden (Foreword by)
Call Number: Law Stacks HV8699.U5 S48 2006

ISBN: 0275992217

Publication Date: 2006-09-01

The death penalty in context -- Dead to rights -- Eyewitness testimony : seeing isn't always believing -- Systemic corruption -- Reasonable doubt at a reasonable price -- Welcome home -- Reasons and remedies for wrongful convictions
The Wrong Men by Stanley Cohen
Call Number: Law Morgan KF9227.C2 C64 2003

ISBN: 0786712589

Publication Date: 2003-09-04

This book chronicles over one hundred cases where journalism students, grassroots organizations, families, and pro bono lawyers;armed with DNA evidence and other instruments of justice;have overturned wrongful convictions. Cohen reveals how eyewitness error, jailhouse snitch testimony, racism, junk science, prosecutorial misconduct, and incompetent counsel have often populated America's death row with the wrong men.

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"False Confessions"
"Wrongful Convictions"
DNA
Evidence
Informant
Informers
Innocent
Guilt
Witness
"Witness Testimony"
DNA Fingerprinting
Evidence, Criminal
Evidence, Expert
"Judicial Error"
"Post-conviction Remedies"

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