Front Matter

• Jurisdiction: United States

Wrongful Conviction Law, Science, and Policy

SECOND EDITION

James R. Acker DISTINGUISHED TEACHING PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY, SUNY

Allison D. Redlich PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINOLOGY, LAW AND SOCIETY, GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY

CAROLINA ACADEMIC PRESS Durham, North Carolina Copyright © 2019 James R. Acker Allison D. Redlich All Rights Reserved

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Acker, James R., 1951- author. | Redlich, Allison D., author.
Title: Wrongful conviction : law, science, and policy / by James R. Acker, Allison D. Redlich.
Description: Second edition. | Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, LLC, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018059286 | ISBN 9781531002251 (alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Judicial error--United States. | Compensation for judicial error--United States. | Clemency--United States. | Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
Classification: LCC KF9756 .A25 2019 | DDC 345.73/05--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018059286

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Printed in the United States of America Dedication

To Jenny, Elizabeth, Anna, Ethan, and Andy. "Innocent: 1. free from moral wrong; without sin; pure. 2. freedom from legal or specific wrong; guiltless.... 11. a simpleton or idiot." Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 695 (New York: Random House 1991). You...