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Daniel Medwed reads from Barred: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Of Prison
Daniel Medwed reads from Barred: Why the Innocent Can’t Get Of Prison
Thousands of innocent people are behind bars in the United States. But proving their innocence and winning their release is nearly impossible. In Barred, legal scholar Daniel S. Medwed argues that our justice system’s stringent procedural rules are largely to blame for the ongoing punishment of the innocent. Those rules guarantee criminal defendants just one opportunity to appeal their convictions directly to a higher court. Afterward, the wrongfully convicted can pursue only a few narrow remedies. Even when there is strong evidence of[read more...]