Ohio Innocence Project Student Research Guide

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.

Extraordinarily powerful stories of ordinary people locked up for crimes they did not commit, and how they were freed against great odds.

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 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.

Addressing the specific issues surrounding wrongful convictions and their implications for society, Convicted but Innocent includes: survey data concerning the possible magnitude of the problem and its causes; fascinating actual case samples; detailed analyses of the major factors associated with wrongful conviction; discussion of public policy implications; and recommendations for reducing the occurrence of such convictions.

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

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.