Unraveling the Wrongful Conviction
A Guide for Analyzing Innocence Claims
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book lays out the author's proven approach to investigating and assessing a defendant's claim of innocence whether pre-trial or post-conviction. The author weaves his 35 years of experience into a simple step-by-step process, showing the reader how to objectively investigate a wrongful conviction. He uses his case histories to describe an alternative to the "trial and error" methods so often used. As a result, this book offers a methodical and repeatable approach to assessing and investigating a defendant's claim of innocence. The book refers to the actual investigations, which led to dozens of exonerations, prison releases, acquittals, and dismissed charges in Murder I cases.
Claims of innocence may be common, but knowledge of an objective way to assess those claims is hardly universal. This book was written for the classroom and the field. It is essential reading for the student, the Innocence Project volunteer, practitioner, or anyone interested in correcting a wrongful conviction or avoiding the next false conviction.
Special Offer for Adopters! Delve more deeply into the fact-finder's role by featuring expert Dan Grothaus in a virtual presentation to your class. Grothaus offers a gratis 45-minute zoom presentation to any class of students using this book in their curriculum. The opportunity could be used by the class to ask questions or discuss any aspect of the book. It is possible the zoom might include an exoneree drop-in. Queries may be made directly to the author at: [email protected]
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Endorsements Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Disclaimer
- Preface: Why I Do This
- 1 How Do I Start? Where Do I Start?
- 2 Organizing the Raw Data
- 3 Building My Murder Memo (Part 1): Organizing the Details
- 4 Building My Murder Memo (Part 2): Reviewing the Police Investigation
- 5 Building My Murder Memo (Part 3): Reviewing Witness Interviews and Lab Reports While Creating My People List and To Dos
- 6 Time to Get Out: My First Client Visit
- 7 Time to Get Out: Visiting the Crime Scene
- 8 Identifying and Finding My Witnesses
- 9 The Witness Interview (Part 1): Approaching the Witness
- 10 The Witness Interview (Part 2): The Interview and the Report
- 11 My Work Completed – Now What?
- Case Names and Citations
- Index